Usless fact

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?

Why can't you?

"DefecTalisman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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?

This will answer your first question..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge

And for the second..

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/


"DefecTalisman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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?

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

lol...'cause I am dyslexic maybe...


"Mac" <> wrote in message
news:A4B1D421-959A-4C45-8281-...
> Why can't you?
>
> "DefecTalisman" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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?
>

Hmm... Seems unreal and near impossible in my country.
So in theory I should just place my mobile phone on it and off I go with
sync of contacts... Vista doesn't even have support for my phone yet...

Nice idea, has functionality for info booths and stuff that you require
little input from a user. Maybe multimedia workstations for schools and
homes.
Try creating a +-10mb *.xls spreadsheet with it with complex equations and
bringing in some VB buttons.


"Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> And for the second..
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Surface interfaces are not new.

"Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> This will answer your first question..
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge
>
> And for the second..
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
>
>
> "DefecTalisman" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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?
>
> --
>
>
> Mike Hall
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>
>
>

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:12:25 +0200, DefecTalisman wrote:

> 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?

Linus did.

Professor needs to go back to school.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm

Short version, railroad guages come in many sizes, depends on where you are.
There are rail lines of 30inch gauge up to 5 feet (or larger).


> 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

<big snip of the bs>

ray wrote:

> Linus did.
>

A reconfigured Unix as reversed engineered by LS is what...a totally new
way of computing...or just a way of ripping off Unix so college students
didn't have to pay for it?
I think we all know the latter is true and the former is just a smoke
screen.
Frank

Completely useless:

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm

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"DefecTalisman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Told to me by a Professor.