Rudi Stegen skrev:
> Madsen, du skrev i dk.edb.internet.udbydere:
>> Hvem er Murphy?
<URL:
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html >
Tjek også denne, jeg fandt den på link-sektionen på ovennævnte
webside, som giver mere information (del 1, 2 og 3):
<URL:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/gmis9906.htm >
<URL:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/gmis9907.htm >
<URL:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/gmis9908.htm >
> En teoretisk fysiker
Kopieret fra det øverste link:
"The following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings
March 3, 1978
Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at
Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.
It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working
on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how
much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.
One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he
cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any
way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and
added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.
Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around
for years in a more basic form and give it a name.
Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp)
who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling
40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety
record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law
and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.
Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in
their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being
quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was
born.
The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few
laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action
with an unacceptable outcome."
The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox:
Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude
for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible
miracle."
Nichols is still around. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in
Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking
project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars."