October 23, 2009 at 18:25What determines the technical achievements of mankind ...
This letter was sent to me, and the sender received this letter from someone else ... so the source of this idea is unknown to me.
If someone knows - tell me, I will indicate the author in the topic.
And do not judge strictly :)
So ...
This is a very old bike, but now with illustrations.
On the sides of the Kennedy spacecraft are two engines 5 feet wide.
The ship's designers wanted to make these engines even wider, but could not.
Why?
The fact is that these engines ...
were delivered by rail.
Which runs through a narrow tunnel.
Standard rail spacing: 4 feet 8.5 inches.
If it were larger, there would be wider wagons, wider tunnels for the wagons, and hence the engines would do more.
The question is: why is the distance between the rails 4 feet 8.5 inches? Where did this figure come from?
It turns out that the railway in the United States was made the same as in England,
and in England they made railway cars on the same principle as tram cars, and the first trams were made in England in the image of a horse tram. And the length of the axis of the horse was just ... right, 4 feet 8.5 inches! But why?
Because the skates were made with the expectation that their axles fell into ruts on English roads, that the wheels wore out less, and the distance between the ruts in England was just ... yes, you guessed it: exactly 4 feet 8.5 inches! Why so?
It’s just that the Romans began to make roads in Great Britain, bringing them to the size of their war chariots, and the axis length of a standard Roman chariot was ... right, 4 feet 8.5 inches!
Well, now we’ve got to the bottom of where this size came from, but still, why did the Romans decide to make their chariots with axles of exactly this length?
And here's why: usually two horses were harnessed to such a chariot. And 4 feet 8.5 inches - it was just the size of two horse asses! To make the axis of the chariot longer was inconvenient, as this violated the balance of the chariot.
Therefore, here is the answer to the very first question: even now, when a person went into space, his highest technical achievements directly depend on the size of a horse’s ass two thousand years ago!
And here I am sitting and thinking ... probably the day will come when the web developers will say:
“Well, it, this IE 6” ... :)
Not for 2,000 years, we ride it.
Have a good Friday everyone :)
If someone knows - tell me, I will indicate the author in the topic.
And do not judge strictly :)
So ...
This is a very old bike, but now with illustrations.
On the sides of the Kennedy spacecraft are two engines 5 feet wide.
The ship's designers wanted to make these engines even wider, but could not.
Why?
The fact is that these engines ...
were delivered by rail.
Which runs through a narrow tunnel.
Standard rail spacing: 4 feet 8.5 inches.
If it were larger, there would be wider wagons, wider tunnels for the wagons, and hence the engines would do more.
The question is: why is the distance between the rails 4 feet 8.5 inches? Where did this figure come from?
It turns out that the railway in the United States was made the same as in England,
and in England they made railway cars on the same principle as tram cars, and the first trams were made in England in the image of a horse tram. And the length of the axis of the horse was just ... right, 4 feet 8.5 inches! But why?
Because the skates were made with the expectation that their axles fell into ruts on English roads, that the wheels wore out less, and the distance between the ruts in England was just ... yes, you guessed it: exactly 4 feet 8.5 inches! Why so?
It’s just that the Romans began to make roads in Great Britain, bringing them to the size of their war chariots, and the axis length of a standard Roman chariot was ... right, 4 feet 8.5 inches!
Well, now we’ve got to the bottom of where this size came from, but still, why did the Romans decide to make their chariots with axles of exactly this length?
And here's why: usually two horses were harnessed to such a chariot. And 4 feet 8.5 inches - it was just the size of two horse asses! To make the axis of the chariot longer was inconvenient, as this violated the balance of the chariot.
Therefore, here is the answer to the very first question: even now, when a person went into space, his highest technical achievements directly depend on the size of a horse’s ass two thousand years ago!
And here I am sitting and thinking ... probably the day will come when the web developers will say:
“Well, it, this IE 6” ... :)
Not for 2,000 years, we ride it.
Have a good Friday everyone :)