Instability of long cylinders

From: Bill

> Please remember that the people that are designing this stuff are
> scientists and engineers with, I hope, a fairly indepth knowledge of
> Newtonian Physics. Thus when asking about simple problems like overall
> dynamic stability, one should at least believe that these people
> solved the dynamic models especially when the numbers seem reasonable.

Yeah, that seemed to be an assumption the guy I was arguing with was
unwilling to make.

Regards,

Mike Combs