Happy Birthday, Big Daddy B

WavMixer said:
Perhaps this birthday greeting might entice him to stop by for a visit. It's been a while since he checked in.
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He joined to gain the persona of "ultra cool." But then, disappeared. Another international member of mystery. Who knows? Who could know (besides ancient Aztecs)?
No wonder the ancient calendar was arranged as a wheel. Forever turning; forever repeating. :rolf:

"The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. So the next time you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war 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 SRB's. 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. The SRB's 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!"
 
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