So, who is Murphy? Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the United States Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances. This project was named USAF Project MX981. One of the experiments involved a set of sixteen accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to it's mount and somebody methodically installed all the sixteen accelerometers the wrong way around. Frustrated, Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, that is "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it that way". This pronouncement was quoted by the test subject of the experiment, Major John Paul Stapp, at a news conference a few days later.

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