Immutable Laws

[Pleater]

Redskin's rule (from WWII RAF Bomber Command)

If something can be fitted wrong somewhere somehow someone will do so.

Prime example of this, a Typhoon with the ailerons swapped left for right and which flew that way until they were replaced correctly during a normal refit. It required longer than normal control wires and my dad had to make them up until the new parts were fitted.

[Riverkilt]

Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.

[Jerry]

Charlie was an older guy that I first worked when I was just an apprentice instrument tech. Here is Charlie's law for lab instrument repair.

"Knowledge is in knowing that tapping it with a Hammer will fix it. True skill in knowing where to tap it and how hard to tap"

Another adage from our shop(from our chief instrument tech)

"Anyone can fix it with parts, it takes real talent to make it work without any"

Needless to say the work quality from our shop improved markedly when those two retired.

[Jerry]

Pilots laws:

Gravity always wins

What goes up must come down. In a plane it's usually better if the down part involves a runway.

[ugm84]

Fahnestock's Rule for Failure: If at first you don't succeed,
destroy all evidence that you tried.

or

Evans's and Bjorn's Law: No matter what goes wrong, there is
always somebody who knew it would.

[bikeolounger]

For many years, I've been hearing that Murphy's Law was not written by Murphy.







It was another fellow with the same name.

[bikeolounger]

Here is an assortment, called the "Less Obvious Laws of the Universe." Mr. Rimmer is quite good at what he's done there...

[The Wizard of BC]

Heinlein's Law

Tanstaafl - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Long's 1st Law

Certainly the game is rigged, Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Longs' 2nd Law

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

Lon'gs 3rd Law

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Long's 4th Law.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, Intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Long's 4th Law.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Long's 5th Law.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

Correlary to Long's 5th Law.

There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.

Minerva's Law.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Pallis Athena's Law.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.




A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an envasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.




That's all for now.

[Howard Clark]

Heinlein has always inspired me. Especially the last paragraph. I was going to post that yesterday, and couldn't find it, or remember it.

Thanks, Steve !

[timber]

The 11th commandment: Thou shalt not get caught.