I was addressing your claim about this specific case:
"In this specific case, to predict the behavior of an evacuated transport tube, and given that the project doesn't resemble any existing projects, one could hardly do better than have a background in spacecraft booster design."
Seems to me that one could do a lot better than having a background in spacecraft booster design, as the fairly trivial errors pointed out in this article illustrate.
"In this specific case, to predict the behavior of an evacuated transport tube, and given that the project doesn't resemble any existing projects, one could hardly do better than have a background in spacecraft booster design."
Seems to me that one could do a lot better than having a background in spacecraft booster design, as the fairly trivial errors pointed out in this article illustrate.