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Several years ago, the Victorian Government commissioned what would be the largest desalination plant in the southern hemisphere. They refused to build a dam on a nearby river that floods with monotonous regularity because, what with climate change and all, rainfall wasn't going to be guaranteed.
So, they decided to spend three times the money a dam would have cost, to get a third of the water. (And now it turns out it is going to cost a *lot* more than they initially said. Surprised, I'm not.)
And now, part way through construction, they are behind schedule.
Due to heavy rainfall.
If a satirist wrote this, you'd roll your eyes thinking he was trying too hard.
Several years ago, the Victorian Government commissioned what would be the largest desalination plant in the southern hemisphere. They refused to build a dam on a nearby river that floods with monotonous regularity because, what with climate change and all, rainfall wasn't going to be guaranteed.
So, they decided to spend three times the money a dam would have cost, to get a third of the water. (And now it turns out it is going to cost a *lot* more than they initially said. Surprised, I'm not.)
And now, part way through construction, they are behind schedule.
Due to heavy rainfall.
If a satirist wrote this, you'd roll your eyes thinking he was trying too hard.
If observation changes events (as quantum mechanics assures us is the case) then how much more, in the same way, might predictions (and actions based on them) affect whether the conditions predicted occur?
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