Xah Lee's Unixism

[CBFalconer]

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.

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Some similarities between GWB and Mussolini:
a) The strut;  b) Making war until brought up short:
                    Mussolini: Ethiopia, France, Greece.
                    GWB:       Afghanistan, Iraq.