Murphy’s law has no time vector!
Posted by feww on November 13, 2009
Nature Defaults on Hydroelectric Supply
Localize or face the consequences: Brazil Power failure plunges its largest cities into darkness
The US, EU countries, China, Japan and other energy dinosaurs WILL experience similar disruptions…
Another Warning Shot Fired by Nature:
Your systems are too inflexible
Banking on the good side of nature. Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam. The world’s largest hydroelectric facility. Credit: Itaipu Binacional.
Remember the first time you heard the so-called Murphy’s Law?
“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
Murphy’s law has no time vector! It doesn’t tell you when things WILL go wrong, and it’s often quoted after things have already gone wrong. It does not incorporate the ‘observer effect.’ Nature is more organized than “Murphy” would have lead you to believe. Now hear this.
FEWW Amendment to Murphy’s Law:
If more things can go wrong they will go wrong about now!
… in the world’s major cities, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, oil rigs, production and processing facilities…
A name for this?
Blog Moderators call this phenomenon Secondary Interlude to Human-Induced Planetary Antiphase.
Previous Examples in recent times?
Repeated flooding in Manila, Philippines.
Examples to watch for in the Near future?
Watch out for disintegration or collapse of Cities, large-scale structures, bridges, tunnels, power plants… , e.g., collapse of China’s Three Gorges Dam in the next two to three years.
Other Examples?
More examples would be posted after the Moderators have evaluated the structures, or places.
Causes?
Earthquakes, Storms, Extreme Rain Events (ERE), Drought and Deluge, Fatigue … Antiphase and all other human-induced factors.
See also entry at
Major Blackout Plunges Brazil into Darkness
Related Links:
- Failing Ecosystems
- Point of NO return
- Human Impact on Nature
- Is a Future Possible?
- Can Humans Enter the Next Phase of the Future?
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