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![Ass, England, and Horses: capsbum Follow
4ft 8.5"
Why 4 FEET 8.5 Inches is Very Important
Fascinating Stut
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 buit them in England, and Engish expatriates
designed the U.S. Railroads.
Why did the Engish buid them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who buit the pre-
railroad tramways, and thats the gauge they used
Why did they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same igs and tools that
they had used for buiding 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
he wheel ruts.
So, who buit those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome buit 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 al alke in the
matter of wheel spacing
Therefore, the Unted States standard rairoad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is
derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot
In other words, bureaucracies lve forever
So the next time you are handed a specfication, 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
he 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 SRES 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 rairoad ine from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the
mountains
and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel
The tunnel is sightly wider than the railroad track, and the ralroad 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 wasnt importanti
Now you know Horses' Asses control almost everything
Explains a whole lot of stut, doesn't it?
djrichiecee
This is the single most mind blowing fact I've read on tunbr, every day is a
school day-thank you
Nice history lesson
My daughler and I were just discussing this very subject
Source totalharmonyc. ow Phistory un
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