Murphy's Law Rules NASA

3x37 writes "James Oberg, former long-time NASA operations employee, now journalist, wrote an MSNBC article about the reality of Murphy's Law at NASA. Interesting that the incident that sparked Murphy's Law over 50 years ago had a nearly identical cause as the Genesis probe failure. The conclusion: Human error is an inevitable input to any complex endeavor. Either you manage and design around it or fail. NASA management still often chooses the latter."

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Re:Mark my words

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Actually a relatively young bunch of guys in America died of CJD. Turned out they'd all eaten scrambled egg mixed with squirrel brains- a local delicacy.

Presumably, the Squirrel had had CJD, and they'd caught it.

So, those tree rats can kill if sufficiently provoked! :-)