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>> RAILROAD TRACKS ARE HOW WIDE APART?
>> Does the statement, 'We've always done it like that'
>> ring any bells?
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>> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the
>> rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's a very odd
>> number.
>>
>> Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they
>> built them in England, and English expatriates built
>> the US railroads.
>>
>> Why did the English build them like that? Because the
>> first rail lines were built by the same people who
>> built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge
>> they used.
>>
>> Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people
>> who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools
>> that they used for building wagons, which used that
>> wheel spacing.
>>
>> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel
>> spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing,
>> the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long
>> distance roads in England, because that's the spacing
>> of the wheel ruts.
>>
>> So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome
>> built the first long distance roads in Europe (and
>> England) for their legions. The roads have been used
>> ever since.
>>
>> And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed
>> the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for
>> fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the
>> chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all
>> alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the
>> United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5
>> inches is derived from the original specifications for
>> an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live
>> forever.
>>
>> So the next time you are handed a
>> Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder 'What
>> horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly
>> right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just
>> wide enough to accommodate the back ends of the rear
>> ends of two war horses...or two horses' asses.
>>
>> Now, the twist to the story:
>> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch
>> pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the
>> sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket
>> boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at
>> their factory at Utah . The engineers who designed
>> the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit
>> fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from
>> the factory to the launch site.
>>
>> The railroad line from the factory happens to run
>> through a tunnel in the mountains. And the RBs had to
>> fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider
>> than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as
>> you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
>>
>> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is
>> arguably the world's most advanced transportation
>> system was determined over two thousand years ago by
>> the width of a horse's ass.
>>
>> And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important?
>>
>> Ancient horse's asses control almost everything....
>> and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything
>> else!! (You need look no further than Washington to
>> confirm this.)
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>> RAILROAD TRACKS ARE HOW WIDE APART?
>> Does the statement, 'We've always done it like that'
>> ring any bells?
>>
>> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the
>> rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's a very odd
>> number.
>>
>> Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they
>> built them in England, and English expatriates built
>> the US railroads.
>>
>> Why did the English build them like that? Because the
>> first rail lines were built by the same people who
>> built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge
>> they used.
>>
>> Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people
>> who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools
>> that they used for building wagons, which used that
>> wheel spacing.
>>
>> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel
>> spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing,
>> the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long
>> distance roads in England, because that's the spacing
>> of the wheel ruts.
>>
>> So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome
>> built the first long distance roads in Europe (and
>> England) for their legions. The roads have been used
>> ever since.
>>
>> And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed
>> the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for
>> fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the
>> chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all
>> alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the
>> United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5
>> inches is derived from the original specifications for
>> an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live
>> forever.
>>
>> So the next time you are handed a
>> Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder 'What
>> horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly
>> right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just
>> wide enough to accommodate the back ends of the rear
>> ends of two war horses...or two horses' asses.
>>
>> Now, the twist to the story:
>> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch
>> pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the
>> sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket
>> boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at
>> their factory at Utah . The engineers who designed
>> the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit
>> fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from
>> the factory to the launch site.
>>
>> The railroad line from the factory happens to run
>> through a tunnel in the mountains. And the RBs had to
>> fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider
>> than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as
>> you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
>>
>> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is
>> arguably the world's most advanced transportation
>> system was determined over two thousand years ago by
>> the width of a horse's ass.
>>
>> And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important?
>>
>> Ancient horse's asses control almost everything....
>> and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything
>> else!! (You need look no further than Washington to
>> confirm this.)