Other than the television series, what is "Murphy's Law"?

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"Murphy's Law" is a collection of explanations as to why things often go wrong in the world. The main premise is Murphy's First Law, which states that "anything that can go wrong will." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/murphy's%20law [Added reference link - McG] Feb 02 08, 5:33 PM

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Murphy's Law. If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in catastrophe, then someone will do it. This is a principle of defensive design. Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the US Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later. Within months "Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. http://foldoc.org/?Murphy's+Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_design [Added second link - McG] Feb 02 08, 5:43 PM

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