Murphy’s law

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Portrait of Edward A. Murphy Jr. in a formal United States Military Academy cadet uniform, from the 1940 West Point yearbook.

Six sequential black and white photos show Colonel John Stapp strapped in a rocket sled, his facial expressions changing dramatically from calm to visibly strained under extreme acceleration and deceleration forces.

Murphy’s law: Media

Because anything that can go wrong really will go wrong

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Portrait of Edward A. Murphy Jr. in a formal United States Military Academy cadet uniform, from the 1940 West Point yearbook.

The man who created the law

Edward A. Murphy Jr., the creator of Murphy's law, shown in his 1940 West Point yearbook.

United States Military Academy

Six sequential black and white photos show Colonel John Stapp strapped in a rocket sled, his facial expressions changing dramatically from calm to visibly strained under extreme acceleration and deceleration forces.

The experiment that inspired “Murphy's Law”

Col. John Stapp shown during the G-force experiments that prompted him to coin the...

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