>>11319665Americans are retarded, but I trust Americans to build quality machinery 10 times more than other countries.
It's just what happens when you raise a country on certain ideals for hundreds of years.
The image of great men like The Wright Brothers is on posters in schools, the simple logo "Ford" that doesn't need to show itself off or advertise anything other than the fact that it's a Ford is on the front of half the cars in America.
Even Steve Jobs who was one of the greatest technological designers of all time I don't think could've come out of any country other than America.
It's laced into their DNA.
>another side thought that kind of scares meChina is developing at a rate a hundred times faster than about any other country on the planet right now.
And what they're creating is a huge push for people to take what they can. What "becoming an engineer" means to them is studying extremely hard to brute force something that's kind of better left to "intuition" or "naunce".
>what's the difference. You act like it's something magicalI think this is people that have never engineered anything's introduction to what it's like to work with something real and tangible.
And what it's like is the fact that things and the amount of permutations of things that can go wrong or not be ideal become exponential when you add them together. To the point where designing a car kind of takes "a special kind of person"
>this metal is 1% softer than would be ideal>because of that, it bends slightly>these screws are more prone to rattling when it bends. Because of that, it becomes less secure>we can rectify this, but we'd need to make it thicker>if it gets thicker, the entire thing becomes heavier>when it gets heavier, there's about 20 things which really should be redesigned. Let's try to make them all work together and hpe nothing like this happens againYou add up 30 things that are 1% imperfect, and what you get is something that's 1000% more likely to fuck up.
