Murphy's Laws

[Rich Strebendt]

In response to:

| Murphy apparently was an engineer or
| worker on the project who did not get things quite right, if he
| actually existed at all.  



	WRONG	WRONG	WRONG	!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There really was a Mr. Murphey, and he really did state the law that is
the foundation of Murphey's Laws.

He was an engineer on the project that was testing the effects of high
G forces on the human body.  They were accellerating a Col. Stapf
(spelling is probably all wrong, but may be close) on a sled with
rockets and filming and telemetering information during the tests.
After the first such test it was found that absolutely no telemetry
data was recorded because a technician had plugged all of the
connectors together backwards - something that the design of the
connectors did not prevent.  Mr. Murphey (perhaps Dr.) made the
observation that if it was possible for something to be done wrong, it
would be done wrong.

The rest of "Murphey's Laws" are elaboration an embellishment on this
observation.

					Rich Strebendt
					ihuxn!res