This is how it was....

The event happened in the year 1949 at the airbase Edwords in Muroc, California, during the labour on MX981 project, which was supposed to bring the results about acceleration influence on pilots. Volonteers full of various electrodes were plugged on the experimental device, some sort of 'rocket sledges' which would stop all of the sudden, during the experiment. Captain Edward A. Murphy (born in 1917) was working as developmental engineer on designing that part of the equipment. After so many attempts, during the entire day, none of the relevant data was derived, becasue there was a mistake in the potential measurement technique. Frustrated Ed Murphy cried out: IF THERE IS ANY WAY TO DO SOMETHING AND TO BRING THAT TO DISASTER, THAN SOMEBODY WILL DO THAT! SOMEBODY WILL CAUSE THE DISASTER!, and he was thinking on the technician who connected important parts of the measurement device. Few weeks later on the press conference which came after (yet)
succesfuly accomplished experiment, Murphy's jeremaid has entered the history. Since then this law was born in the following form, which is known worldwide: " If something can go wrong, it will."

The Authors of the project have ascribed the success to the belief in Murphy's Law and consequent effort, not to commit indispensably. Few companies have started to use this law in commercial purposes. That's the way on which this principle is appointed, and its spread was quick and unstoppable.

Long time before Murphy, people were aware that jinxes do happen and multiply on their own variety. So, in far, far 1984, Victorian satirist James Payn has described the appereance which possibly become the most famous Murphy's Law: "Bread pasted with butter, always falls down on buttered side". James Payn has felt some of the Murphy's Laws on its own skin, when he, as an editor of one particular magazine, refused certain handwriting of the detective story called "Purple Study", which later on, celebrated Arthur C. Daley, the father of Sherlock Holmes.

For start here are few laws, just to make you interested. The rest of them, you will find on the left side.

- If something can go wrong, it will. (Murphy was an optimist)
- If something can't go wrong, it will go wrong.
-If there is a possibility for several things to go wrong, the one that inflicts the greatest damage, will be the one.
(conclusion: If there is the worst period for something to go wrong, something will go wrong in that exact period.)
- If everything seems like going ok, you absolutely forgot something.
- The chance for bread to fall down on buttered side is directly proportional with the price of the carpet or floor.
- To get a loan, first you must proove that you don't need it.
- If you are trying to fix something, it will last longer, and wil cost you more than you thought.
- The other line is always faster than yours.
- If it get stuck, try with force. If it breaks appart, replacement was neccesary anyway.
- When you show malfunctioned device to the service guy, it works perfectly.
- All good in life is: illegal, immorally or nourishing.
- Murphy's Golden Rule: 'The one who has the Gold, does creates the rules
- Never argue with a fool, people won't make any difference.
- Each one of us has a scheme for becoming rich, which doesn't work.
- No matter how carefuly and for how long you are biying some thing, after you bought it, it will be on some place else for sale at lower price.
- The thing will be damaged in direct proportion with its value.
- Smile!.... Tomorrow will be worse.
- The things are going on ok, so, it can get worse.
- In correct mathematical expression, 1+1=2. The sign '=' means 'rarely'.
- Where the desire is, there is also a resist.
- If you can't make it for the first time, destroy all evidence that you even tried.
- When you open the can with worms once, the only way to get them back inside is to take another, bigger can. - Do not open the worms can, unless you have really decided to go on fishing.
- One tends to become two; when it becomes two, it does stops being one.
- Out of two possible events, only unwanted will happen.
- There are no limits in how much things can get more worse and worse.
- There is no simple job that cannot be accomplished really bad.
- It is humanly to err, but the feeling is divine.
- Don't be the first, don't be the last, don't be the volunteer.
- Particle is searching for the closest eye.
- If you pour the glass of wine into barrel of vinegar, you get vinegar. If you pour the glass of vinegar into barrel of wine, you get vinegar.
- You always get into trouble more easier than you actually get out of the trouble.
- Never do something for what you cannot say that you are dead tired from ongoings.
- All objects are moving at least that much, so they must be on your way.
- Only ragging is the real thing. Everything else is ragging.

While eating your breakfast, you are trying to take a cup of morning tea and accidentally touch buttered toast, that all of the sudden slips down from the table. Be assured that the toast almost always falls on the buttered side. Don't worry by the way, this is not happening to you only. This problem has it's long history.
The first person who accidentaly noticed and written this down, was Victorian poet and satirist James Payn, the person who has dedicated one song to the toast, in the earlier 1844.

"I've never had a piece of toast
particulary long and wide,
but fell upon a sanded floor,
and always on the buttered side."

Some people say that toast falls on the buttered side because of the butter weight. Let us think a little bit. The weight of the average butter on the toast carries less weight than 10% of average piece of toast. If we add the fact that very good part of butter is soaked to the inner side, you can tell that there is no influence caused by butter and how the toast will end up on our floor.
On British television, BBC, inthe year of 1991, in "QED" TV show, they tried to disqualify and to disprove the truth of Murphy's falling toast law. Few volunteers were throwing the buttered toast in the air, afterwards they have followed the results of the fall. Out of 300 throws, the toast fell on the buttered side 152 times. 148 times on the dry one. It was very close to 50% - in other words, there are no rules that toast always falls down on the buttered side.

However, their experiment was accomplished on pretty much stupid way. They simply threw the toast in the air, and that has nothing to do with the real life situation which I have adduced on the beginning of the text, the toast is falling from the edge of the kitchen table. Therefore this conclusion of thiers is rejected as unfounded.
The English explorer Robert Matthews from the Aston university in Bermingham, had the true approach to the problem.
R. Matthews first tested falling pieces of wood in a shape of the toast where "butter" was written on the upper side. Than, he repeated that again with the buttered toast and got approximately the same kind of results. The only difference was in the level of carpet filthiness.

The whole story about falling toast according to the R. Matthews interpretation, could be adjusted like this. The butter is not changing the aerodynamic toast properties, instead of that the grounding of the toast is determined by the speed of rotation while it falls down. As the height of the table is usually adjusted to the average height of the human being, somewhere around one meter, the whole problem is spinning around the height of the desk table.

Because of the table height, the toast or some other object with the similar shape has the time to make only the half of the turn during the fall, which means it will fall on the other, buttered side.
If people were tall around three meters or if gravity is different, instead of loosing our time on problems like this, we would do some other usefull things.

This way, there is no other option but to fight against forces which are making our lives worse, such as this example with the falling toast.
If you would like to avoid this unpleasant thing, I suggest you to take a breakfast from the top of your refridgerator, so the toast would have enough time for complete turn during fall.

Maybe you are the inventor of the machine which will produce the disturbances on the gravity field around the breakfast table.
However, the most easiest way is to do some buttering on the bottom side.

As the history is speaking that Murphy's Law was created in the universe, during the space research, it is quite natural than for Murphy's Law and it's arrival on Venus. Now, how is that possilbe? Read on and convince your self that it is possible.

Venus is the previous closest planet to the Earth. It almost has the same dimensions as the Earth does. Surrounded by the dense clouds so the scientists couldn't peak trough the Venus surface. For the very long time, there were no evidences about the ruling conditions on it's surface, so the human imagination began to develop the theories about wet tropical jungles, populated with dinosaurs, ... on Venus. In fact, the same rumor as with the Mars, channels on Mars and its potential inhabitants - Martians.

Modern science has proven that conditions on Venus are very unpleasant. The temperature is something below 500 degrees, pressure around 100 athmospheres, atmospheric covering made of carbonic acid anhydride and sulfurid acid.

The success is however accomplished in the year of 1982, with the Venus 13 and Venus 14 missions, when the pictures from this planet's surface were succesfully sent back to earth, and on the fly, one more proof about Murphy's Law even on the non-friendly places was confirmed.

Little probe called Venus 13, had landed on Venus on 01.03.1982. After 4 days, Venus 14 has has landed successfully too. Venus 13 has landed on the east side from small mountain region named Phoebe Regio. No matter it was designed to hold on no more than half an hour on the surface, Venus 13 managed to hold on even four times longer, 127 minutes excatly. During that time, eight colour photos were sent back to the earth, taken from the panorama surface where it landed.

Venus 14 has landed inside lowland around 1000 km southwest from the Venus 13. The Soviets actually never announced for how much long Venus 14 has survived on the surface, but the second probe also managed to send few photos. The time for the experiment was very limited, the probes had to respond very quickly. The first experiment was already mentioned photographing.

In order to accomplish that, the protection cover for the photo-lens was supposed to fell off. The second experiment was measuring the physical and mechanical properties of the Venus ground, by the help of the artificial arm that probes were pulling out in certain moments.

This entire introduction was made just because of the following things.... Here comes the Murphy's Law in affect!

On each probe, the covers for the photo lens fell off, and felt down to the ground. The photos of the surface were being made. In the same moment, artificial arms were pulled out on both probes. Venus 14 sent the data about physical and mechanical properties back to earth.

Venus 14 has pulled out its mechanical arms, and started with measuring. But not the measuring of the surface (as it was a plan), intstead of that, unfortunate arm grabbed the cover of the photo lens, and the properties of the lens cover were sent back to earth!!

Out of 500 million surface square miles on which the cover could fell, it felt on the same place where the arm decided to inspect!

Which Law we could apply on the work of Venus 14?

Perhaps this one: All objects are moving at least that much, so they must be on your way.
... or this one: Out of two possible events, only unwanted will happen.
Or maybe even this one: There is no simple job that cannot be accomplished really bad.