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Once again, theory disproves what practice has verified. I hear you guys are still trying to figure out how houseflies can fly. I guess, in the meantime they can't. Excuse me while I go get my flyswatter. (I guess you didn't read all the related posts.) 3 comments
You just explained to me that a law is how things work, except that sometimes it doesn't work. There, I simplified it for you. Let's not go any further—you'll just be trying to save face, by obfuscating caveats and qualified conditionals. And I don't care.  An out of control trolley car implies speed. You won't be able to get the timing right between the two wheel sets or be able to complete the lever flip in between the front and back wheel, if it is at speed. |
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@_chris_real @sidereal Murphy's Law doesn't become invalid only because you have n examples of where it worked just fine.
Do it to rob a train, it will work. Do it in a controlled test environment to prove a point, it will work. Do it to actually save someone's life, and it will fail in the most spectacular way you can imagine. Either just because of a random streak of misfortune or because there's some subtle detail that was different this time and that you missed during the execution of your plan. That's what Murphy's Law is all about.
@_chris_real @sidereal Murphy's Law doesn't become invalid only because you have n examples of where it worked just fine.
Do it to rob a train, it will work. Do it in a controlled test environment to prove a point, it will work. Do it to actually save someone's life, and it will fail in the most spectacular way you can imagine. Either just because of a random streak of misfortune or because there's some subtle detail that was different this time and that you missed during the execution of your plan....