Mental Floss 59
The answer to last week’s challenge is. Q: In a famous tourist destination the local authorities have made the price of electricity higher in order to increase tourism. Why?
A: Niagara Falls, where the water could be diverted for hydro electricity to provide cheaper power. To do so however diminishes the flow of water across the falls as it needs to be diverted first.
This week’s lateral thinking challenge is.
Q: Why would an organisation spend 10’s of millions of dollars to find something that costs only a few thousand dollars?
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The answer along with a new challenge, next week.
Have a great weekend!
For the previous question; the answer could also be because the government needed extra revenue to finance some tourist attraction works. Or possibly to pay for the cost of hiding ugly overhanging cables and electricity towers.
For this week lateral thinking challenge;
It is a dangerously faulty car that needed to be located after the product line of this model were distributed over to many places.
Or, to find a faulty piece in an expensive space exploration equipment.
Or, a very nostalgic object belonging to a billionaire who doesn’t care about spending such money (probably because he is already very old.)
Great thoughts!