How Light is Your Flywheel+Clutch?

[MWS]

Originally Posted by maytag

Let's think like scientists for a moment, shall we?
We have hundreds of experiments, with as many variables. We have ONE failure (of the hundreds of tests). We blame ONE of the variables because it seems to make sense. We'd never get past peer review. Ever. If we published, we'd be laughed to shame.

I'm a big fan of the scientific method (as it relates to OTHER people, lol), but I'm just too darn risk adverse to experience failure after failure just to prove a hypothesis to myself. I previously mentioned the example of hitting myself with a hammer, once is enough...now Im picturing a room full of scientists whacking themselves in their heads with hammers to replicate results then moving to another peer review group poised with hammers in hand and heads on the tables. Lol.

Also, I'm not in the camp of trusting one person, as even an "expert" has to pass my mental review process. I guess what I'm asking is "what design seems better to you, at least from a common sense point of view?" Using that criteria, you'll always be right...or at least for a few minutes.