Unless you are someone who works in the aircraft industry, or enjoy's reading up on how things work, chances are you don't really think that much about aircraft parts and supplies. While we fly on an airplane for hours on end we typically have very little idea how the aircraft actually works.

Oh sure, we know it has something to do with that jet engine and the air speed which keeps it up. And yeah, those wings are probably pretty helpful, but we don't really know how parts work with each other to keep us airborne.

Actually, in a way, we are probably much happier not knowing how things like aircrafts work because, you know, it's kinda scary to realize how fine of a line we are walking from a nice, clean flight and a fiery wreck. Every part on an airplane needs to work together in complete and utter compliance to make sure that you're able to get from point A to point B. In truth, we probably know more about the in flight movie then we know about the plane we are flying in.

The thing is, though, you could say the same thing about just about anything that we use, from our computer to our cars. How do they work? We don't know, we just use them and then complain if they don't work. Take for example this thing I'm typing on right now: my computer. Now, how does the letters that I am typing end up on the screen? Heck if I know.

Frankly, I'm getting a bit of a headache right now thinking about it. The thing is, because there are people who are experts in the field, I don't need to know about how it works. Oh sure, it would be nice, but the way things are right now I could go my entire life without knowing what a microchip does and I would be fine.

It would actually be a beneficial for people to learn more about the things that they use and how they work. Take a car for example. There is an entire business built around the idea that people don't know how a car works and how to fix said problems: mechanics.

If we all knew how a car works we would be able to fix most of the problems ourselves. The sad thing is when we learn how easy it is to fix certain parts of our car we realize how much money we wasted on our ignorance.

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