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AN INTERESTING

HISTORY LESSON.

Railroad
tracks. This is fascinating. The end result is surprisingly correct. Enjoy!

Be sure to read the final paragraph. Your understanding of it will depend
on the earlier part of the content.

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? 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 *** came up
with it?’ you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made
just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two
horses’ *****.) 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 desi gned 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 ***. And
you thought being a horse’s *** wasn’t important?
Therefore: Ancient
horse’s ***** control almost everything….and CURRENT Horses ***** are controlling
everything else!

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