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DefecTalisman
Told to me by a Professor.
There was a shuttle due to be launched in to space via NASA a few years
back, to only exploded on take off with civilians in it. The reason was
that the solid fuel on the rockets was in 2 pieces with a join. At this
join the seals broke and put a direct flame to the shuttles liquid fuel.
KaBOOM.
In the design of the rocket the scientists had requested a larger/fatter
single solid fuel. The reason they ended up with a set of 2 two piece fuels
was as follows.
The place where the fuels were made is in the mountains somewhere, the
rockets are transported via standard rail and the original designed fuels
couldn't fit through the tunnel the tracks went through...
Ok so now why are train tracks a standard width?
Back just before the Huns invaded Rome, there was a major traffic jam in
Rome. Reason for the traffic jam was that all the merchants would have huge
wagons made for the transport of goods, with no regulation to size these
wagons got bigger and bigger. Eventually to the point where if 2 tried to
go down the same road they couldn't pass each other. So Caesar at the time
took it upon himself to measure the width of 2 horses and made that the
standard for all wheel spans. This then lead to grooves in the road that
your wheels could fit in and less traffic jams. Funny how years later we
still use the same girth for train tracks....
I know this was long and drawn out, with what seems like no conclusion.
Conclusion... weather wrong or inappropriate we still use standards and ways
set out years ago... Even if they are leading us in the wrong direction.
Why cant some one just come up with a totally new way of operating a
computer?
There was a shuttle due to be launched in to space via NASA a few years
back, to only exploded on take off with civilians in it. The reason was
that the solid fuel on the rockets was in 2 pieces with a join. At this
join the seals broke and put a direct flame to the shuttles liquid fuel.
KaBOOM.
In the design of the rocket the scientists had requested a larger/fatter
single solid fuel. The reason they ended up with a set of 2 two piece fuels
was as follows.
The place where the fuels were made is in the mountains somewhere, the
rockets are transported via standard rail and the original designed fuels
couldn't fit through the tunnel the tracks went through...
Ok so now why are train tracks a standard width?
Back just before the Huns invaded Rome, there was a major traffic jam in
Rome. Reason for the traffic jam was that all the merchants would have huge
wagons made for the transport of goods, with no regulation to size these
wagons got bigger and bigger. Eventually to the point where if 2 tried to
go down the same road they couldn't pass each other. So Caesar at the time
took it upon himself to measure the width of 2 horses and made that the
standard for all wheel spans. This then lead to grooves in the road that
your wheels could fit in and less traffic jams. Funny how years later we
still use the same girth for train tracks....
I know this was long and drawn out, with what seems like no conclusion.
Conclusion... weather wrong or inappropriate we still use standards and ways
set out years ago... Even if they are leading us in the wrong direction.
Why cant some one just come up with a totally new way of operating a
computer?