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I'm very glad you lived. I hope nobody lost their lives ~ you say "near fatal", which suggests all lives were spared. Sadly, I lost a much-loved cousin to a car accident, so the subject is a personal and deeply felt one on my part. Again, glad you made it through that awfulness.
Very glad you made it! Welcome back to the land of the living - go find peace, and don't stress about living now that you've been given a second chance (at least, this is my approach after a few events decades ago).
Well done listening to the “experts”. It only takes on average approximately five seconds to fix in position a seat belt which been law in the uk since 1 February 1983. UK studies have shown that car or other required vehicle occupants between the ages of 17 to 34 demonstrate the lowest compliance level with the relevant laws. Crazy fools who save five seconds for each relevant event and then dramatically increase the known risks of injury or death as the result of an accident. This avoidance of duties under English laws might save a driver, for example, who sets off in his vehicle 4 times every day for 7 days per week, accompanied or otherwise, the massive total of approximately 20 hours every ten years, or 2 hours out of his/her lifetime every year. Not a bad deal really.
@@piotrcusworth2077 Here in the USA, the lowest compliance was, and still is, based on race - but we are no longer allowed to report that, let alone fine for it, as - instead of admitting to their problem - it became yet another 'freebie' law they get passed by on.
Very much like Norman Borlaug who invented GMO’s and fed 1 in 6 people worldwide he’s another person who nobody knows saves lives every day, decades after their deaths. These are real heroes, not to belittle movie stars and athletes but their accomplishments are very dim shadows in comparison.
John Paul Stapp was my father's namesake and godfather, as he was close friends with my grandfather who also grew up in Decatur. My Dad would visit him in New Mexico whenever he passed through and got to see him not long before his death. Paul Stapp was a heck of a guy and great story teller.
I grew up in nm where Dr Stapp was our summer camp instructor at the space hall. He was a great guy with great info, and really patient with nerdy little kids. His sled is out front to climb onto. Brave man.
@@chrisl2681 That's a great memory. I'd love to see the sled sometime. I am amazed that few people know his name considering that, if you think about it, his outspoken advocacy of seat belts in cars has probably saved more lives than just about any piece of technology besides penicillin.
@@chrisl2681 His sled is still somewhere, availible for people to see and climb into? I'd love to go and take a picture there, and show it to my future students which I want to inspire to study and do great things. I hope that can be my "great thing", to have been an assistant in the inspiration and education of the next John Paul Stapp.
I just turned 70. This makes me one of the few who remember when seat belts became mandatory in new cars. Not wearing them. Just the factory instaling them. Before that time, if you wanted seat belts you had to go to an auto parts store to buy them. Then have your mechanic install them. I am grateful to my parents and grandparents who believed in seat belts and consistently taught us four boys to wear them. Later I worked for some mortuaries. I saw what happened to people who crashed without wearing seat belts. 'Nuff said?
In 2019 it was estimated there were 54.1 million people aged 65 on up in the US. QUITE "a few"! Even after covid deaths, that is still a whole lot of people who also were around then to remember it.
I too just turned 70. My mother had to buy something called “Hold that tiger” to keep my baby brother from climbing into the front seat. Didn’t you think it was Nader’s best seller “Unsafe at Any Speed” that changed it all? And remember when drunk driving became a thing?
I remember those days too. Problem was that "seat belts" in the early days were just lap belts - they'd keep you from getting thrown out of the car in a rollover, and they'd keep you from smashing your head on the windshield, but they didn't do anything to keep mom & dad from smashing their faces on the steering wheel and dashboard. One of my mother's friends was rather gruesomely injured that way wearing a lap belt in a low speed collision (had all her front teeth knocked out). Still better than the alternative I guess.
I'm actually surprised Dr. Stapp and his team didn't win a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, as his findings created better restraints, determined the upper limits on humans experiencing G-forces, and saved hundreds of thousands of lives through the seatbelt.
As a retired Air Force flight medic I am well aware of Dr. Stapp. He is one of our and Air Force Flight Surgeons hero's. It was a joy to meet him in his later years. Still humble and inspiring with a great sense of humor. You can still see a portion of the original track at Edwards AFB, CA, and more at the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum. Well worth the trip to the high desert.
Could he still walk was he normal after all that? I dont mean any disrespect it is just interesting that a human could go through all that and donit again and be ok
If you present a valid ID at the gate and obtain a pass you should be good, barring any security lockdowns. Make sure you have enough gas before entering Edwards as it is about 18 miles from the main gate to the base proper. You would not be authorized to purchase gas on base.
When I met him he was pretty well up in years and you could tell he was feeling the wear and tear but he was under his own power! If I recall correctly he was back at Edwards doing some follow on research and we gave him one of our absent flight surgeons offices to use for the week.
Whoa. What I was expecting - some humorous anecdotes - turned into a gut wrenching biography of Dr. Stapp (and others). I kept watching this video with incredulous apprehension as each detail unfolded. Why haven't we heard of this guy more? Is there a documentary about him? Thank you so much for telling his story. And yes - a seat belt did save my life in a terrible car accident decades ago.
He was my distant cousin actually, PBS has a great documentary called The Space Men, you can watch it at Amazon or on the PBS website www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/spacemen/
I've wondered that myself. This is the only the second time I've come across any real discussion of him, the first being an article about him on badassoftheweek.com
@@mastick5106 he went on to help produce Hardcore Heroes. Project Excelsior and Stapp's rocket sled. I loved the 'Battle the elements' one with the firefighter and ex-marine in Katrina's wake.
Today I Found Out that an absolute fearless science Chad stared death and physics down until they blinked. Multiple times. And many of us owe him our lives today because of it. What a trooper.
THAT t-shirt needs to exist with the credit of who said it. Forget the length of this video; it was damn well done. Virtual high five, Simon and Daven!
It wasn't until you mentioned the longer video length that I realized I had been watching for nearly half an hour. Excellently paced and highly entertaining!
My grandpa is Dick in the quote from Joe Kittinger. He was an Air Force doctor and was even on a recent History Channel special on the balloon jump. He passed away a year ago but had so many stories about his time in the service. He and Joe remained friends his entire life.
Thank you guys. From a former Air Force pilot whose life likely benefited and depended on the work of Dr. Stapp. Very thankful for these people and their selflessness.
On a technicality, Simon, on that laundry list of injuries Stapp accumulated, profuse or even any amount of sweat wasn't one of the items...... So he was technically correct. No sweat; a lot of blood, broken bones, and time healing; but no recorded sweat whatsoever.
I work as a child passenger safety technician, and I’m super excited to learn about this! Who knew that Murphy’s law was related to car safety, even if only tangentially?
On the subject of rear facing seats in aircraft. While in the US Navy I got to experience being launched off an aircraft carrier in a C2 Greyhound. Interesting enough the seats for all the passengers were facing to the rear and when i asked about the orientation later they told me it was to increase survivability in the event of a crash and to reduce G-force related effects when landing on the carrier.
Yep, many military aircraft have the seats facing backward because the safety stats are undeniable. Landings are also much more comfortable backward, especially if you have any fast deceleration. The G-forces push you into the seat instead of pulling you out of it. I prefer it, actually. The only reason commercial carriers don't do it is because customer focus groups tend not to like the idea.
@@dosmastrify Possibly, but based on personal experience I would say that the effects are negligible. The RAF used to employ re-purposed civilian airliners to move personnel (Lockheed TriStars iirc) with the seats turned backwards. I don't remember ever feeling much if any discomfort on take-off.
This is why I love this channel. I've known about the story of Dr. Staap and the g-force experiments but I didn't know that it played into the origins of Murphy's Law. Great job TIFO! 👍👏👏👏
Years ago, working at a university in IT, we had a report that vast portions of the network were down. After a bit of investigation we found a rogue home router in an office that was doling out incorrect addresses to any machine that asked rendering them dead. We go walking to said office to find the suspect and what’s on the door? Professor Kevin Murphy Of course it was.
Derek Douglas I remember reading that joke in a book in the early 90’s. The book was a compendium of variations of Murphy’s Law because, after all, Murphy was an *optimist.* Thank you for the reminder 😀
I'm finna take a dark trip into da echelons of my masculinity den cop a Turkish rug upon which a hung aboriginal will steal my manhood in a few foul schwoops.
My high school art teacher's father, Jarvis Wallen, is the man responsible for designing the back end of planes that we still use today. My friend's dad, Hugh Stotts, designed the landing gear, much later, the landing gear being the only in tact part of the plane the first one with his design went down. My art teacher was very proud to show us her father's certificate of achievement from Boeing for his design in WWII.
Wow! This guy Stapp was a hero and a little crazy too. This video was really good, especially with all the bonus facts. Can't wait for the Sexual Intellectual tee shirts😁
I just watched a video on how when Stapps superiors ordered him to stop using himself as a test subject, lead to his creating the "Crash Test Dummy", leading to saving thousands of lives due to automobile (amongst other vehicles) testing creating safer vehicles, and laws enforcing said safety additions.
There's an "O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law" stating "Murphy was an optimist." Then there's "Ellis' Observation of O'Toole's Commentary" saying "O'Toole underestimated Murphy's optimism." (By the way, I'm the Ellis.)
Hello from 2024! I’m compelled to deviate from my sparse commenting habits to let TIFO and particularly Daven know that this video didn’t do it for me. But for a good reason. Namely, I’ve accidentally conditioned myself to relaxing (into unconsciousness) to Simon talking about palatable subjects, so I put this video on my sleeping playlist. Instead, I found myself so entertained, amused and invested that sleeping was 100% out of the window. I’ve been an active consumer of TIFO video and podcast content since 2015 or so, and I believe this is the best piece I’ve ever watched. Bravo! 🙌
A rocket sled named "Gee Whiz" - cracked me up! Now, I can picture him, at the end of his run, jumping up with his hands held high, shouting....... "I'm OK.....I'm OK!". Love you, Simon! Love this channel! Keep 'em coming!
This is a great video thank you my mother used to work in an Alzheimer's facility where she used to work with a lot of old army Pilots and she had worked with somebody who was one of the first Pilots to break the sound barrier she said there were more pilots than any other occupation that ended up in the Alzheimer's facility
That was a wonderful video! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you for making such great vids! I didn't know there was such a heroic story behind "Murphy's Law" and I didn't know it was about checking things to prevent the worst, not just merely expecting the worst.
I unintentionally learned about Kittinger during my high school years (about a thousand years ago) and now I know even more about him...cool! It was nice to learn about Stapp and Murphy too!
I remember that skit and used the quote several times while growing up. As I grew older, I said it with the most dead pan expression causing people to laugh because it was so outlandish. RIP Tim Conway. I blame my sense of humor on the Carol Burnett Show. LOL Good memories...
There is an add on to the end of Murphy's law known by all automotive mechanics, it is; "Everything that can go wrong will, and will cost $500 more than first estimated!"
Is it not better to just tack on an extra $500 or is that avoided because most people will go with the lower bids and turn down the higher bid even if it turns out to be the correct bid or lower in the end?
Here's a couple more: "A bolt or nut dropped during an engine repair will always fall into the least accessible location." "The likelihood of finding a tool is inversely proportional to its need." And from back in the day, "A $230 CRT will always protect a 5¢ fuse."
Also: "Cut-to-length wires are too short." That one cost the Airbus A380 program about $5 billion and 2-5 years of delay, depending on how you calculate it.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams
Apparently impressed by Stapp's work, in 1956 Ford tried to market their cars as safer and introduced an options package that included seat belts. Ford lost so badly to Chevy that "Safety Doesn't Sell" became an industry motto. Seat belts did not become mandatory in the US until 1968. I remember reading a cartoon in "Boy's Life" magazine sometime in the mid 1960s that showed in graphic detail what happened to the driver of a car during a crash, including the coupe de gras of being impaled on the steering column.
Ford outsold Chevy in both 1956 and 1957. This 27:14 despite the tri50’s chevy’s now considered great cars. My Dad bought a ‘57 Chevy and traded it a year later on a ‘56 DeSoto! Dad told me many times that that Chevy was a Lousy car, and the rear window leaked so badly that it made my Mother sick to ride in it! The DeSoto was a Much better car and I remember it well!
@@davidlogansr8007 Thanks. I had been relying on statements like "Ford outsold Chevrolet for the 1957 model year for the first time since 1935". I have not examined the data in detail, but am guessing that conclusions may vary depending on which models are included in the comparison. We had a 1957 two-tone Dodge with big fins and a push-button transmission. A leaky rear window would not have been appreciated since we kids often slept there during long trips.
Every time I came across this episode of TIFO I bypassed it thinking that a 30-minute video on Murphy's Law couldn't possibly be interesting enough to hold my attention. It totally was! Excellent job guys.
Like so many thousands of others, I too was in a serious car accident and walked away with minor injuries thanks to my seat belt and air bags. Thank you Dr. Stapp!
6:00 "His rubber face being literally ripped off" by the G-forces. Reminds me of that part in 'The Expanse' (3rd season?) where the daredevil pilot tried to fly his spaceship through the alien gate and was stopped instantly. Chunky Salsa Face - POOF!
20:40 - Stapp's point was very true - My uncle died after winning his Green Beret due to a car accident in a pre-seat-belt vehicle. A potential soldier wasted for lack of protective equipment. I also knew a man who died from an accident for being ejected from his car for lack of wearing his seat-belt.
This segment brought to you by "Whistler's Law," where "Deck-a-tour" is the same as "De-cay-ter." As for automobiles being more dangerous than aircraft, our 1963 Plymouth Valiant DID NOT have seat belts, which was a worry. (This made one drive very carefully/"drive defensively" or else.)
Otokichi786 - I had bolted-to-the-floor seat belts installed (no retraction reel available) into my '62 beetle. Fish around on the floor b4 buckling up. Dirt streaks anyone? 👵🏻 🥴 😫
I've known this for years! One of my childhood heros was the legendary Cpt. Joe Kittinger . (yes he was the guy who jumped from 100k feet with a duct taped "space" suit and parachuted to earth) and Kittinger was the "chase pilot" for Stapp's "rocket sled" rides. ha ! you put in there :)
This was back in the day when getting a degree didn't put you in crippling debt. He was able to get a degree that he could afford and work a bit while saving up money. In effect, he was able to upgrade his degrees.
@@eyekanspalwerds7824 In the sciences a lot of times a PhD is basically free(ish), and many PhD candidates actually earn a bit of money. He probably had to be in a PhD program to have the job as a research assistant.
@@eyekanspalwerds7824 I have a PhD, and I can confirm that you get paid a stipend to live on and free tuition as a US citizen. Medical school this is not the case. Sounds like the system was similar back then. The main reason for this is medical school is in much higher demand than PhDs. They are willing to pay people to do PhDs because not enough americans are willing to go to grad school and do research.
Yep - you basically work for free (paid just enough to cover your rent and groceries), for 4-6 years (of ten-hour days), in order to earn a Ph.D. (Mine took 5 years.) You have to really, really like your field of research, just to consider it. I like to point out that while most Ph.D.'s could breeze through law school, very few lawyers could ever earn a Ph.D.
I like to think of the Earth as a large Terrarium with gigantic Interstellar beings looking over it and every once in a while the mice climb to the top of the cage and then jump back down to the Amusement of the interstellar zookeepers.
This is a great video. I did not know of his other heroic deeds. I have no personal experience of seat belts, but I once watched helplessly as a construction hard hat saved a man's life. A ladder fell on his head; the hard hat got knocked off and he was physically knocked to the ground, but there was absolutely no injury whatsoever. In another incident where I had to report a license plate number to the police, I saw a guy driving down the street with a motorcycle stuck up underneath his car. The cops gave the rider a ride to his motorcycle. His helmet was all scratched up, but the head inside it was OK.
I went to the police station the next morning and asked the cop, a motorcycle cop (!) what happened when he showed up at the driver's home. "Is this your car?" "Yes." "We got a report it was involved in a little accident last night. Do you know anything about that?" "Well ... I hit something." "What did you hit?" " A motorcycle." "And where is the rider?" "I don't know." "Maybe he's stuck up underneath your car, still." "I don't think so." "Maybe he's lying out on the freeway. Dead." '"Is he dead?" "Well, how do YOU care?"
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Dr Stapp is responsible for saving my life this week. I was in a near fatal motor vehicle accident on 8/19
My seatbelt saved my life
I'm very glad you lived. I hope nobody lost their lives ~ you say "near fatal", which suggests all lives were spared. Sadly, I lost a much-loved cousin to a car accident, so the subject is a personal and deeply felt one on my part. Again, glad you made it through that awfulness.
Very glad you made it! Welcome back to the land of the living - go find peace, and don't stress about living now that you've been given a second chance (at least, this is my approach after a few events decades ago).
Well done listening to the “experts”. It only takes on average approximately five seconds to fix in position a seat belt which been law in the uk since 1 February 1983. UK studies have shown that car or other required vehicle occupants between the ages of 17 to 34 demonstrate the lowest compliance level with the relevant laws. Crazy fools who save five seconds for each relevant event and then dramatically increase the known risks of injury or death as the result of an accident. This avoidance of duties under English laws might save a driver, for example, who sets off in his vehicle 4 times every day for 7 days per week, accompanied or otherwise, the massive total of approximately 20 hours every ten years, or 2 hours out of his/her lifetime every year. Not a bad deal really.
@@piotrcusworth2077 Here in the USA, the lowest compliance was, and still is, based on race - but we are no longer allowed to report that, let alone fine for it, as - instead of admitting to their problem - it became yet another 'freebie' law they get passed by on.
Very much like Norman Borlaug who invented GMO’s and fed 1 in 6 people worldwide he’s another person who nobody knows saves lives every day, decades after their deaths. These are real heroes, not to belittle movie stars and athletes but their accomplishments are very dim shadows in comparison.
Dr. Stapp is an unsung hero. Thank you for bringing his story to fruition. There should be an award named after him.
So we should really re-name seat belts “Stapp Straps”
I Second the motion!
I third this motion. Let’s submit this to congress
Sorry, Scott Stapp of Creed has preemptively ruined this.
Fourth!
Dr. Stapp was brave, fearless, and in a lot of physical pain.
John Paul Stapp was my father's namesake and godfather, as he was close friends with my grandfather who also grew up in Decatur. My Dad would visit him in New Mexico whenever he passed through and got to see him not long before his death. Paul Stapp was a heck of a guy and great story teller.
I grew up in nm where Dr Stapp was our summer camp instructor at the space hall. He was a great guy with great info, and really patient with nerdy little kids. His sled is out front to climb onto. Brave man.
@@chrisl2681 That's a great memory. I'd love to see the sled sometime. I am amazed that few people know his name considering that, if you think about it, his outspoken advocacy of seat belts in cars has probably saved more lives than just about any piece of technology besides penicillin.
@@chrisl2681 His sled is still somewhere, availible for people to see and climb into? I'd love to go and take a picture there, and show it to my future students which I want to inspire to study and do great things. I hope that can be my "great thing", to have been an assistant in the inspiration and education of the next John Paul Stapp.
I'd say he was a legend!
And he looks so ordinary, bless him.
I just turned 70. This makes me one of the few who remember when seat belts became mandatory in new cars. Not wearing them. Just the factory instaling them.
Before that time, if you wanted seat belts you had to go to an auto parts store to buy them. Then have your mechanic install them. I am grateful to my parents and grandparents who believed in seat belts and consistently taught us four boys to wear them.
Later I worked for some mortuaries. I saw what happened to people who crashed without wearing seat belts.
'Nuff said?
In 2019 it was estimated there were 54.1 million people aged 65 on up in the US. QUITE "a few"! Even after covid deaths, that is still a whole lot of people who also were around then to remember it.
I too just turned 70. My mother had to buy something called “Hold that tiger” to keep my baby brother from climbing into the front seat. Didn’t you think it was Nader’s best seller “Unsafe at Any Speed” that changed it all? And remember when drunk driving became a thing?
I remember those days too. Problem was that "seat belts" in the early days were just lap belts - they'd keep you from getting thrown out of the car in a rollover, and they'd keep you from smashing your head on the windshield, but they didn't do anything to keep mom & dad from smashing their faces on the steering wheel and dashboard. One of my mother's friends was rather gruesomely injured that way wearing a lap belt in a low speed collision (had all her front teeth knocked out). Still better than the alternative I guess.
@@gastonbell108, And remember whiplash?
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I'm glad I now know who to thank for being alive today. Dr. Stapp is someone who deserves to be better known.
I agree with you! He deserves to be remembered.
I'm actually surprised Dr. Stapp and his team didn't win a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, as his findings created better restraints, determined the upper limits on humans experiencing G-forces, and saved hundreds of thousands of lives through the seatbelt.
Same here. It wasn't even a wild one but two cars hitting each other head on at 30mph...that'll do without seat belts!
You can see more about stapp at Holloman AFB test track squadron. You can view you tube videos of their rocket tests and reenactments.
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brilliant, relentless and funny, Dr Stapp sounds like an absolutely delightful person to have a drink and a talk with
As a retired Air Force flight medic I am well aware of Dr. Stapp. He is one of our and Air Force Flight Surgeons hero's. It was a joy to meet him in his later years. Still humble and inspiring with a great sense of humor. You can still see a portion of the original track at Edwards AFB, CA, and more at the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum. Well worth the trip to the high desert.
I'm going to be near the Edwards air base this fall.. are civilians allowed near it?
@@melskunk Define "near" lol
Could he still walk was he normal after all that? I dont mean any disrespect it is just interesting that a human could go through all that and donit again and be ok
If you present a valid ID at the gate and obtain a pass you should be good, barring any security lockdowns. Make sure you have enough gas before entering Edwards as it is about 18 miles from the main gate to the base proper. You would not be authorized to purchase gas on base.
When I met him he was pretty well up in years and you could tell he was feeling the wear and tear but he was under his own power! If I recall correctly he was back at Edwards doing some follow on research and we gave him one of our absent flight surgeons offices to use for the week.
Saw a sign on the highway yesterday that read: "Not buckled up? What's holding you back?"
Go Away Gina very good
Lol
Clever and smart
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Whoa. What I was expecting - some humorous anecdotes - turned into a gut wrenching biography of Dr. Stapp (and others). I kept watching this video with incredulous apprehension as each detail unfolded. Why haven't we heard of this guy more? Is there a documentary about him? Thank you so much for telling his story. And yes - a seat belt did save my life in a terrible car accident decades ago.
Um...I just watched an awesome documentary about him, thanks to TIFO.
He was my distant cousin actually, PBS has a great documentary called The Space Men, you can watch it at Amazon or on the PBS website www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/spacemen/
I've wondered that myself. This is the only the second time I've come across any real discussion of him, the first being an article about him on badassoftheweek.com
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@@mastick5106 he went on to help produce Hardcore Heroes. Project Excelsior and Stapp's rocket sled. I loved the 'Battle the elements' one with the firefighter and ex-marine in Katrina's wake.
Can you imagine this today? “Don’t have the money for for medical school so I’ll get a bachelor in zoology and a spare PHD instead”
Lol I mean, that's not close to what he did, but that would be very amusing:)
Murphy's Law:
"Whatever can go wrong will; and at the most inopportune time."
The General's Credo:
"Mr. Murphy was an optimist."
If the area seems undefended, you've walked into a minefield.
Hence; FUBAR.
@@pr0xZen And SNAFU
Also known as Skinner's Law.
I only see even more meaning behind Milo Murphy being so incredibly optimistic.
Today I Found Out that an absolute fearless science Chad stared death and physics down until they blinked. Multiple times.
And many of us owe him our lives today because of it. What a trooper.
THAT t-shirt needs to exist with the credit of who said it. Forget the length of this video; it was damn well done. Virtual high five, Simon and Daven!
It wasn't until you mentioned the longer video length that I realized I had been watching for nearly half an hour. Excellently paced and highly entertaining!
It may be their best video on the channel, alls that missing was Simon's full beard; that came years later though
you can throw this away, im going to be the test subject. what a hero
Hero is not the exact word I would choose.
Not a hero. Just a man hell bent on not failing
My grandpa is Dick in the quote from Joe Kittinger. He was an Air Force doctor and was even on a recent History Channel special on the balloon jump. He passed away a year ago but had so many stories about his time in the service. He and Joe remained friends his entire life.
I have always said that the safest place on a plane is the rear - planes rarely reverse into mountainsides.
Old Carol Burnett skit
Plane jokes aren’t funny.
-Bill Burr skit
If it's a mountainside, you're screwed anyway because of the explosion...
...rarely...?
Thank you guys. From a former Air Force pilot whose life likely benefited and depended on the work of Dr. Stapp. Very thankful for these people and their selflessness.
On a technicality, Simon, on that laundry list of injuries Stapp accumulated, profuse or even any amount of sweat wasn't one of the items...... So he was technically correct. No sweat; a lot of blood, broken bones, and time healing; but no recorded sweat whatsoever.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I work as a child passenger safety technician, and I’m super excited to learn about this! Who knew that Murphy’s law was related to car safety, even if only tangentially?
On the subject of rear facing seats in aircraft. While in the US Navy I got to experience being launched off an aircraft carrier in a C2 Greyhound. Interesting enough the seats for all the passengers were facing to the rear and when i asked about the orientation later they told me it was to increase survivability in the event of a crash and to reduce G-force related effects when landing on the carrier.
Yep, many military aircraft have the seats facing backward because the safety stats are undeniable. Landings are also much more comfortable backward, especially if you have any fast deceleration. The G-forces push you into the seat instead of pulling you out of it. I prefer it, actually. The only reason commercial carriers don't do it is because customer focus groups tend not to like the idea.
Having landed on C-2 on a carrier, I can speak for, and agree, that the rear facing option was best on the body
@@drumguy1384 I think in general the g forces of commercial airlines are slightly greater on takeoff also - but that's my subjective recollection
@@dosmastrify Possibly, but based on personal experience I would say that the effects are negligible. The RAF used to employ re-purposed civilian airliners to move personnel (Lockheed TriStars iirc) with the seats turned backwards. I don't remember ever feeling much if any discomfort on take-off.
@@Simian-bz7zo oh no, I would never call it discomfort. Probably not even 0.3g
Before starting this I saw 27min of length... I thot too long, but now finished I think not long enough.
This guy did SO much... bravo bro!
My favorite Law:
"Thou Shall No Expect Others to Think"
I hope that I can remember this comment & use it
@@dirtfarmer7472 Don't Make Me Think is a great book on web design too.
Dr. Stapp's work already saved my arse several times - thank you so much for your invaluable service, good Doctor.
Wow! Genuinely, one of your best.
morskojvolk - Oh yeah! 👍🏼 👏🏼👏🏼 👌🏻 👨🏻🚀 💫
I am alive because of this guy. Thank You Dr. Stapp
Obviously my definition of no sweat and Dr. Stapp's definition are just a little different
ya can't sweat if you are bleeding out from your eyes and spitting out the filling in your teeth :)
He really broke his tail! coccyx at 7;07
Im more inclined to be like stapp's
No sweat just tears
@@jaybay3494 And shattered wrists. Oooooof
I love Dr. Stapp. ♡ What a frickin' selfless genius.
Stapp: From English Major to Human Meteorite.
What an incredible man Dr. Stapp was. Plus all the amazing people on that team. We have a lot to thank them for.
Dr. Stapp sounds like a great guy!
I’m probably one of those “sexual intellectuals”, lol.
Doctor Stapp was a true mad lad.
Now to scroll till I find a, "Stapp didn't know when to stapp." pun.
This is why I love this channel. I've known about the story of Dr. Staap and the g-force experiments but I didn't know that it played into the origins of Murphy's Law.
Great job TIFO! 👍👏👏👏
Years ago, working at a university in IT, we had a report that vast portions of the network were down. After a bit of investigation we found a rogue home router in an office that was doling out incorrect addresses to any machine that asked rendering them dead. We go walking to said office to find the suspect and what’s on the door?
Professor Kevin Murphy
Of course it was.
just like the clouviant
due to unforeseen events we are closed/
Cringe
Glad this story really wasn't about him :) Although the title left me surprised.
We all know what Murphy's Law is, but have any of you ever heard of Cole's Law?
It's thinly sliced cabbage
Lol good one!
Lol
Derek Douglas 😂🤭
@@ABCDoris IM FINNA GET CAUGHT UP TO MY ELBOWS IN COLESLAW. WE STILL ON FOR MINI GOLF, SHAWTY FLAP JACKZ?
Derek Douglas I remember reading that joke in a book in the early 90’s. The book was a compendium of variations of Murphy’s Law because, after all, Murphy was an *optimist.*
Thank you for the reminder 😀
Learning that he wanted to continue after losing his sight for couple of hours - STAP STAPP! 🤯
Please make the t-shirt. "Sexual Intellectuals" ROTFLMAO
I'd so buy it.
I'm finna take a dark trip into da echelons of my masculinity den cop a Turkish rug upon which a hung aboriginal will steal my manhood in a few foul schwoops.
Also:
"Sexual Tyrannosaur" - Jesse Ventura
Only if they have the balls to keep the uncensorred sub-title "fucking know-it-all", either under or on tha back
With an arrow pointing up, of course.
Stapp is one hell of a person. Amazing
"We see things as we are, not as they are." Anais Nin...
A man reading Anaïs, that's nice 🍃
Thank you Dr. Stapp. Brave, brave man.
I am reminded of a quote from John Gall's Systemantics (1975): - "When a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe".
My high school art teacher's father, Jarvis Wallen, is the man responsible for designing the back end of planes that we still use today. My friend's dad, Hugh Stotts, designed the landing gear, much later, the landing gear being the only in tact part of the plane the first one with his design went down. My art teacher was very proud to show us her father's certificate of achievement from Boeing for his design in WWII.
Wow! This guy Stapp was a hero and a little crazy too. This video was really good, especially with all the bonus facts. Can't wait for the Sexual Intellectual tee shirts😁
A LITTLE crazy? Dude was completely bonkers and borderline suicidal. Lol
@@ThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan guilt
@@bookmouse770 Yeah, probably survivor's guilt over his nephew. Sad but we are all beneficiaries of his work. Incredible.
What a hero Dr. Stapp was. Thanks for the knowledge and delivery here.
I just watched a video on how when Stapps superiors ordered him to stop using himself as a test subject, lead to his creating the "Crash Test Dummy", leading to saving thousands of lives due to automobile (amongst other vehicles) testing creating safer vehicles, and laws enforcing said safety additions.
Tim Carder the Grumman-Alderson Research Device (GARD)
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OG Mythbuster. He was busting myths before there was a Buster to Bust.
What an insane, amazing, and admirable person. So many discoveries, so many innovations, so many lives saved.
"Thou Shall Not Expect Others to Think" (for themselves)
Puts a new meaning at being “strapped in”
I'd buy that t-shirt, especially if it includes appropriate mla citations
There's an "O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law" stating "Murphy was an optimist." Then there's "Ellis' Observation of O'Toole's Commentary" saying "O'Toole underestimated Murphy's optimism." (By the way, I'm the Ellis.)
Super presentation of a series of historic scientific events. Another "hit" Simon. Thanks 👵🏻🤗🤩
Hello from 2024! I’m compelled to deviate from my sparse commenting habits to let TIFO and particularly Daven know that this video didn’t do it for me. But for a good reason.
Namely, I’ve accidentally conditioned myself to relaxing (into unconsciousness) to Simon talking about palatable subjects, so I put this video on my sleeping playlist. Instead, I found myself so entertained, amused and invested that sleeping was 100% out of the window.
I’ve been an active consumer of TIFO video and podcast content since 2015 or so, and I believe this is the best piece I’ve ever watched. Bravo! 🙌
I’m so happy with the longer video! The pacing is great and the information is so much fun!
What an absolute champ! Still saving thousands of lives today. A true scientist and humanist.
Murphy's law is my favorite thing to quote.
Thank you for making this
Lol me to
Clearly Dr. Stapp was a man who truly wished to help as many people as possible, and had an unrivalled passion to make it happen.
A rocket sled named "Gee Whiz" - cracked me up! Now, I can picture him, at the end of his run, jumping up with his hands held high, shouting....... "I'm OK.....I'm OK!". Love you, Simon! Love this channel! Keep 'em coming!
Brilliant video! Very informative. A seat belt saved my life once when I was in the Air Force, so thank you Doctor!
Murphy was a real person. Yaaay.
Murphy was an optimist.
"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."
Truer words have never been spoken. 🤣
If not for an unimaginably horrific accident the world would not have benefited so greatly from the talents and drive of a very honorable person.
This is a great video thank you my mother used to work in an Alzheimer's facility where she used to work with a lot of old army Pilots and she had worked with somebody who was one of the first Pilots to break the sound barrier she said there were more pilots than any other occupation that ended up in the Alzheimer's facility
Interesting observation, warranting further study...
That was a wonderful video! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you for making such great vids! I didn't know there was such a heroic story behind "Murphy's Law" and I didn't know it was about checking things to prevent the worst, not just merely expecting the worst.
Thankyou for this video. Not all heroes need recognition by their own standards. Sounds like Dr. Stapp was as humble as being the hero that he was.
I wish I could like this multiple times. Very interesting and informative, loved the bonus facts. One of the best videos y'all have done.
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I unintentionally learned about Kittinger during my high school years (about a thousand years ago) and now I know even more about him...cool! It was nice to learn about Stapp and Murphy too!
24:45 Tim Conway, while doing a skit on “The Carol Burnett Show,” said it best, “You’ve never hear of a plane backing into a mountain.”
LOL! I think that was on the "No-Frills Airlines" skit. I _loved_ watching Tim Conway on The Carol Burnett Show. He always had me in tears. 🤣😭
I remember that skit and used the quote several times while growing up. As I grew older, I said it with the most dead pan expression causing people to laugh because it was so outlandish. RIP Tim Conway. I blame my sense of humor on the Carol Burnett Show. LOL Good memories...
It would be better if it was "heard", not "hear".
@@LisaBowers Tim Conway was the best part of the show.
His story of the Siamese twin elephants and "SNORK!" was always my favorite. 🤣
Why the variety of accounts?
Tongue firmly in cheek:
If anything can be misremembered, it will be misremembered.
One of my mentors worked with Murphy on the SR71.
Machtyn WHOA
Very cool.
There is an add on to the end of Murphy's law known by all automotive mechanics, it is; "Everything that can go wrong will, and will cost $500 more than first estimated!"
And unfortunately, some abuse that.
Is it not better to just tack on an extra $500 or is that avoided because most people will go with the lower bids and turn down the higher bid even if it turns out to be the correct bid or lower in the end?
The 1st corollary to Murphy's Law is "Murphy was an optimist"
Here's a couple more: "A bolt or nut dropped during an engine repair will always fall into the least accessible location." "The likelihood of finding a tool is inversely proportional to its need." And from back in the day, "A $230 CRT will always protect a 5¢ fuse."
I'm sure I've seen this on COD4s dear screen in the campaign
Don't forget Murphy's inversion, "If something can't possibly go wrong, it will."
@@darkamora5123 The Titanic is unsinkable. 😁
Also: "Cut-to-length wires are too short." That one cost the Airbus A380 program about $5 billion and 2-5 years of delay, depending on how you calculate it.
Hearing an attempt in full sincerity to correctly pronounce ’Decatur’ with French phonetics was like a dream. In North Texas we say ’Dee-Kay-Tor.’
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
a genius, that man
Of course thats true because when you design something so that it cant fail, you dont design it to be repaired, because why? You wont ever have to.
@metamorphicorder Well, at least until it inevitably does fail.
I love this guy. I wish I knew about him sooner. What a crazy wonderful chap!
Chuck Yeager spoke the way he felt. Got to respect that.
I liked his quotes as well. They seems factual to me.
Is that why Capt Edward Joseph Dwight Jr never became an astronaut?
The Smithsonian Channel documentary "Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier”
He continues to! I follow him on Twitter, he's still alive and active in his late 90s.
Apparently impressed by Stapp's work, in 1956 Ford tried to market their cars as safer and introduced an options package that included seat belts. Ford lost so badly to Chevy that "Safety Doesn't Sell" became an industry motto. Seat belts did not become mandatory in the US until 1968.
I remember reading a cartoon in "Boy's Life" magazine sometime in the mid 1960s that showed in graphic detail what happened to the driver of a car during a crash, including the coupe de gras of being impaled on the steering column.
Ford outsold Chevy in both 1956 and 1957. This 27:14 despite the tri50’s chevy’s now considered great cars. My Dad bought a ‘57 Chevy and traded it a year later on a ‘56 DeSoto! Dad told me many times that that Chevy was a Lousy car, and the rear window leaked so badly that it made my Mother sick to ride in it! The DeSoto was a Much better car and I remember it well!
@@davidlogansr8007 Thanks. I had been relying on statements like "Ford outsold Chevrolet for the 1957 model year for the first time since 1935". I have not examined the data in detail, but am guessing that conclusions may vary depending on which models are included in the comparison. We had a 1957 two-tone Dodge with big fins and a push-button transmission. A leaky rear window would not have been appreciated since we kids often slept there during long trips.
Most military aircraft, when configured for passengers, have the seats facing backwards. The colloquial phrase was "fly backwards airlines".
Every time I came across this episode of TIFO I bypassed it thinking that a 30-minute video on Murphy's Law couldn't possibly be interesting enough to hold my attention. It totally was! Excellent job guys.
Please make that shirt in 4XLT. I want to be the biggest "Sexual Intellectual" in history.
I'll need a 8XLT...
Could you have a female
SI t-shirt, v-neck? I’d love one! lol ✌️🦋
Like so many thousands of others, I too was in a serious car accident and walked away with minor injuries thanks to my seat belt and air bags. Thank you Dr. Stapp!
Yep! The back rows are safest. If you fly first class, you'll arrive first at the scene of the accident.
Dr. Stapp's face is kind, very comforting for a doc!
6:00 "His rubber face being literally ripped off" by the G-forces.
Reminds me of that part in 'The Expanse' (3rd season?) where the daredevil pilot tried to fly his spaceship through the alien gate and was stopped instantly. Chunky Salsa Face - POOF!
20:40 - Stapp's point was very true - My uncle died after winning his Green Beret due to a car accident in a pre-seat-belt vehicle.
A potential soldier wasted for lack of protective equipment.
I also knew a man who died from an accident for being ejected from his car for lack of wearing his seat-belt.
This segment brought to you by "Whistler's Law," where "Deck-a-tour" is the same as "De-cay-ter."
As for automobiles being more dangerous than aircraft, our 1963 Plymouth Valiant DID NOT have seat belts, which was a worry. (This made one drive very carefully/"drive defensively" or else.)
Otokichi786 - I had bolted-to-the-floor seat belts installed (no retraction reel available) into my '62 beetle. Fish around on the floor b4 buckling up. Dirt streaks anyone? 👵🏻 🥴 😫
I've known this for years! One of my childhood heros was the legendary Cpt. Joe Kittinger . (yes he was the guy who jumped from 100k feet with a duct taped "space" suit and parachuted to earth) and Kittinger was the "chase pilot" for Stapp's "rocket sled" rides.
ha ! you put in there :)
Kittinger crops up in a lot of stories!
Can't afford med school but earns 2 advanced degrees prior to attending said Med school?
Priorities.
Persistence.
This was back in the day when getting a degree didn't put you in crippling debt. He was able to get a degree that he could afford and work a bit while saving up money. In effect, he was able to upgrade his degrees.
@@eyekanspalwerds7824 In the sciences a lot of times a PhD is basically free(ish), and many PhD candidates actually earn a bit of money. He probably had to be in a PhD program to have the job as a research assistant.
@@eyekanspalwerds7824 I have a PhD, and I can confirm that you get paid a stipend to live on and free tuition as a US citizen. Medical school this is not the case. Sounds like the system was similar back then. The main reason for this is medical school is in much higher demand than PhDs. They are willing to pay people to do PhDs because not enough americans are willing to go to grad school and do research.
Yep - you basically work for free (paid just enough to cover your rent and groceries), for 4-6 years (of ten-hour days), in order to earn a Ph.D. (Mine took 5 years.) You have to really, really like your field of research, just to consider it.
I like to point out that while most Ph.D.'s could breeze through law school, very few lawyers could ever earn a Ph.D.
Stapp, Yeager...... unsung heroes...... Thanks for the video. Truly one of my favourites....
I say"Give Daven a raise!" Great script.
Agreed!
What a great life used for the betterment of all mankind, top notch episode Simon!!!🙏👍😎
This had a surprisingly interesting cast of characters and events.
And then there is O'Reilly's Law: "Murphy was an optimist"
😂🤣
Jaroslovsky's Law: The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in
proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.
I heard that was Gumberson's law. "Mrphy was a damned optimist."
I like to think of the Earth as a large Terrarium with gigantic Interstellar beings looking over it and every once in a while the mice climb to the top of the cage and then jump back down to the Amusement of the interstellar zookeepers.
just due it I have a visual mind so that comment truly cracked me up!
Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
This is a great video. I did not know of his other heroic deeds. I have no personal experience of seat belts, but I once watched helplessly as a construction hard hat saved a man's life. A ladder fell on his head; the hard hat got knocked off and he was physically knocked to the ground, but there was absolutely no injury whatsoever. In another incident where I had to report a license plate number to the police, I saw a guy driving down the street with a motorcycle stuck up underneath his car. The cops gave the rider a ride to his motorcycle. His helmet was all scratched up, but the head inside it was OK.
I went to the police station the next morning and asked the cop, a motorcycle cop (!) what happened when he showed up at the driver's home.
"Is this your car?"
"Yes."
"We got a report it was involved in a little accident last night. Do you know anything about that?"
"Well ... I hit something."
"What did you hit?"
" A motorcycle."
"And where is the rider?"
"I don't know."
"Maybe he's stuck up underneath your car, still."
"I don't think so."
"Maybe he's lying out on the freeway. Dead."
'"Is he dead?"
"Well, how do YOU care?"
On the failure of Heuristic analysis with conjectural or subjective variables:
"When any parameter of a problem is comprised of any degree of opinion, the result will be diametrically opposed to that which is desired or expected."
These were the Kings of American progress. What a video!
Its been a while since I sat in the cargo hold of a US Air force "passenger" plane. But those seats faced backwards.