[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.