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Who was Murphy in Murphy's Law? (And the Hero Dr. John Paul Stapp Who Gave Us the Expression) (2019x221)
Fecha de emisión: Ago 20, 2019
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The universe has been finding ways to mess with people long before Edward A. Murphy uttered his famed statement in the aftermath of Dr. John Paul Stapp strapping himself onto a rocket powered sled. One of the earliest instances of this “law” being stated explicitly happened in 1877 where Alfred Holt, in an address to the Institution of Civil Engineers, said, “It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later…”
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