Xah Lee's Unixism

[Morten Reistad]

In article <41376B82.C6A202FC at yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer  <cbfalconer at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Peter Hansen wrote:
>> Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
>>> wyrmwif at tango-sierra-oscar-foxtrot-tango.fake.org "SM Ryan" wrote:
>> 
>>>> There's a story about why railroad tracks are spaced the way they are.
>>>
>>> Is this the one about two Roman horses' arses?  If so, it also accounts
>>> for the physical dimensions of the Space Shuttle's boosters.
>> 
>> A quick search using Google will show that while there is a
>> certain amount of truth in the original story, most of the
>> details are wrong, and the final bit about the booster rockets
>> is unsubstantiated.  But it's still a cute story.
>
>I know nothing about those stories, but it seems reasonable to me
>that the boosters would have been designed to be transportable by
>railroad, which ties their dimensions to track gauge.

ISTR there was some tunnel NASA had to relate to if they wanted
to move the goods from production to launch. But that may have been
earlier products. 

But rail tunnels are also descended from the same asses, so to speak. 

-- mrr