| Horses Asses 14:26 - Sep 6 with 2341 views | hype313 |
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same 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 more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, 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 what about the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk 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.
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (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 in 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 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? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... |  |
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| Horses Asses on 15:58 - Sep 7 with 288 views | PhilTWTD |
| Horses Asses on 23:40 - Sep 6 by King_ding_a_lin_g |
All this article seems to do is confirm the point they are attempting to deny?
The standard US railway gauge is indeed borrowed from the UK's eventual standard gauge, which in turn was probably borrowed from the gauge used by Roman chariots... but, had the civil war gone another way, which it didn't, standard gauge in the US might not have been 4ft 8 1/2 inches.
But it is.
(there were many gauges being tried out in different parts of the UK at that time and Stevenson's was the one that stuck because it was the locomotive that was successful, and possibly not because of the gauge). [Post edited 6 Sep 2021 23:42]
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Think the point they make is that the progression from Roman chariots to modern rails to space shuttles at the heart of the narrative isn't as claimed: "That similarity is based much more on coincidence and inherent physical limitations than a direct line of imitation." |  | | |
| Horses Asses on 16:10 - Sep 7 with 281 views | Keno |
| Horses Asses on 15:58 - Sep 7 by PhilTWTD |
Think the point they make is that the progression from Roman chariots to modern rails to space shuttles at the heart of the narrative isn't as claimed: "That similarity is based much more on coincidence and inherent physical limitations than a direct line of imitation." |
so are you saying there is a correlation between a horses ass and the space shuttle booster rather than a the horses ass being the causation of the size of the space shuttle booster ? |  |
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| Horses Asses on 16:27 - Sep 7 with 273 views | PhilTWTD |
| Horses Asses on 16:10 - Sep 7 by Keno |
so are you saying there is a correlation between a horses ass and the space shuttle booster rather than a the horses ass being the causation of the size of the space shuttle booster ? |
Yes, I think so. | | | |
| Horses Asses on 17:39 - Sep 7 with 252 views | StNeotsBlue |
| Horses Asses on 16:10 - Sep 7 by Keno |
so are you saying there is a correlation between a horses ass and the space shuttle booster rather than a the horses ass being the causation of the size of the space shuttle booster ? |
Ffs arse not ass. |  | | |
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