A musing Beam

Anybody that has ever successfully completed a long-term project will be able to easily tell you how many ways it could have gone wrong.  (The hard-working and professional folk will probably be able to tell you how it DID go wrong, but they had planned for the unexpected and were able to deal with it.)  It's always easier for things to go against the plan than to follow it.  Newton pointed this out with the law of entropy (which is now slightly varied in that order may eventually form from chaos, but we'll ignore that for now ... heh). One of my earlier posts was about Bloom's taxonomy, and an old high school friend sent me a more up-to-date version that includes a new pinnacle:  creativity. It's harder to create something than to destroy it.  For an extreme example, 19 men took out two skyscrapers, part of the most powerful military in the world's command center, a good section of the world's progressive economy, and a large chunk of common sense for years