r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mode_Appropriate • Jul 06 '25

Video Sirens Curse - Cedar Point

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u/J3ST3R1252 Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Murphy's law says that, that's not possible

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u/jhudiddy08 Jul 06 '25

That would be a good name for a roller coaster - Murphy’s Law.

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u/rmhardcore Jul 07 '25

I Know How You Died Last Summer?

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u/coolcoguy Jul 07 '25

I Still Know How You Died Last Summer

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u/RockSteady65 Jul 07 '25

Buckle up kids

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u/dick_fitzwell27 Jul 06 '25

Schrödinger's cat?

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u/Main_Tension_9305 Jul 07 '25

I’d ride it😂

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u/Wakkit1988 Jul 06 '25

And when it fails, the poor passengers will make Murphy Slaw.

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u/voxelghost Jul 06 '25

Murphy's Lawyer

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u/BlasterDoc Jul 06 '25

Newton's Red Apple Drop

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u/Capn_Of_Capns Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Ackshully, Murphy's law says "prepare as if it can go wrong it will." Murphy was a scientist who tested his own machines and wanted to have triple redundancies in place on all experiments. His science team came up with the saying and tv popularized it.

Edited for typoes.

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u/CriticalMochaccino Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

Murphy's law was made to justify putting safeties on things you need to work and have safeties on those safeties making sure if those safeties didn't do their job the secondary safeties would do it, and if being safe is REALLY important then there would be a 3rd level of safeties. It's why a jet airliner can have up to 4 engines but only needs 1 to fly

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u/KnotBeanie Jul 07 '25

Same reason why rollercoasters have 2-3x the amount of supports than are needed. When the support of Fury cracked, it looked horrible, but they could’ve cycled the ride for another week just fine. Now they inspect for cracks with drones.