[ben_w]

An interesting and worth-knowing observation. I ought to have guessed given how off-base public discussion of other things often is, yet I forgot to apply Gell Mann Amnesia.

Which forums would you say are worth lurking in? This one? The Stack Overflow family? Are any specific subreddits not-terrible?

[planteen]

This forum isn't really that good for space discussion. There are definitely people in the aerospace industry, but not very many, and mostly in software. You really need some people who are aerospace engineers to have the best discussion. Lots of flight software algorithms begin as a MATLAB/Simulink or Fortran code from an aerospace engineer rewritten by a software engineer.

I've seen some good discussion on Stack Overflow, but I don't regularly lurk. I do lurk on satobs.org - occasionally there is very interesting discussion there.