Chapter 10. RDE Defeats Murphy’s Law and “Bares” the Stock Markets
According to Edwards Air Force Base’s History Office, Capt. Edward A. Murphy was an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981 to see how much sudden deceleration a person can endure in a crash. The work was done at Edwards Air Base in 1949, where Murphy created the harness for a rocket-powered sled designed to move faster than a speeding bullet. The test failed, and the sled’s passenger, Dr. John Paul Stapp, was temporarily blinded because, as Murphy later discovered, a transducer had been installed backward. Murphy cursed the technician responsible and said, “If there is any way to do it wrong, he’ll find it.”
His colleagues overheard him and began repeating the adage. Before ...
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