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From: NANCY JERRY P CARR <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: rc3r <rc3r@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Jun 2, 2020 6:30 am
Subject: [rc3r] Fwd: What do Railroad Tracks & space shuttles have in common?
Subject: Fw: What do Railroad Tracks & space shuttles have in common?
Interesting facts about Railroad Tracks & space shuttles Railroad Tracks
The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
inches.That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?Because that's the way they built them in England, and
English expatriates designed the U.S. 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 tram ways used the same jigs
and tools that they had 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 (including England) for their legions. Those
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.In other words, bureaucracies
live forever.So the next time you are handed a specification, procedure, or
process, and wonder, 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly
right.Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate
the rear ends of two war horses.Now, the twist to the story:When you see a
Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, you will notice that 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 in
Utah.The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a
bit larger, 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 SRBs 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!
Now you know, Horses' Asses control almost everything!Explains a whole lot of
stuff, doesn't it??!!
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