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Cold Iron · Jan 28, 2019

Bluegrass Taco said: ↑

If I didn't know better I'd say It's monday.

Neurologist just called. Looks like we're starting over. I have a lot of Parkinsons symptoms. Also a family history of Parkinsons. My regular physician said It's Parkinsons. She sent me to a neurologist. He ran all the tests. Said I reported quite a few symptoms that aren't consistent with Parkinsons. So he started clean slate...

Further testing required before treatment begins but it appears I have an advanced case of MS. He said I need to start applying for disability asap.

More joy....
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Good luck Bill hope they can get an accurate diagnoses on you. And then hopefully move forward with positive results.

kamakazie_1 said: ↑

I know it has to be 1700Hrs somewhere!!!

RJ
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Almost 1600 here, time to go blow snow. And shovel. Before it gets cold. 11 right now looks like that is going to be the highest will see for a few days. -35 Wednesday night and 38 above on Saturday with rain and sleet. Oh joy, loose loose.

Cypherian · Jan 28, 2019

kamakazie_1 said: ↑

I know it has to be 1700Hrs somewhere!!!

RJ
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1710 Here soo :}

Cypher

jwctaco · Jan 28, 2019

Evening kids, day started 10* with blowing snow. Temps rose all day, now 34*, been blowing all day. We got about a foot of snow, all cleaned up now. Work let us out an hour early, 50 minute drive turned into 90. Friggin weather.

jwctaco · Jan 28, 2019

Bluegrass Taco said: ↑

If I didn't know better I'd say It's monday.

Neurologist just called. Looks like we're starting over. I have a lot of Parkinsons symptoms. Also a family history of Parkinsons. My regular physician said It's Parkinsons. She sent me to a neurologist. He ran all the tests. Said I reported quite a few symptoms that aren't consistent with Parkinsons. So he started clean slate...

Further testing required before treatment begins but it appears I have an advanced case of MS. He said I need to start applying for disability asap.

More joy....
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Bluegrass Taco said: ↑

If I didn't know better I'd say It's monday.

Neurologist just called. Looks like we're starting over. I have a lot of Parkinsons symptoms. Also a family history of Parkinsons. My regular physician said It's Parkinsons. She sent me to a neurologist. He ran all the tests. Said I reported quite a few symptoms that aren't consistent with Parkinsons. So he started clean slate...

Further testing required before treatment begins but it appears I have an advanced case of MS. He said I need to start applying for disability asap.

More joy....
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Bill I am so sorry to hear this, try and keep your spirits up. You are in my prayers.

TownvilleTim · Jan 28, 2019

Cypherian said: ↑

Is your water heater gas ? Does it have an air intake coming out from the bottom? My house previous to this one had a bottom vent gas water heater. When it failed it was leaking down into the crawl space. I only found out when I was sitting out side feeding the working dog one night and could hear water running . Finally found it when I pulled the access cover off and the plastic that was on the bottom of the floor joist was bellied half way down to the ground . Water had filled it up almost the complete length of one half of the house. I would never have known till the plastic gave way. Thankfully the homeowners insurance paid for that to be redone after I replaced the water heater.

Cypher
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Mine is electric and is in the crawl space. Don't see anything around it really. Just the water when I took the covers off. My guy is coming Wednesday morning to check everything out. No way am I messing with that thing again.

Kolunatic · Jan 28, 2019

RickS said: ↑

Morning/Afternoon all. For your reading pleasure.

Engineering Romans Space Travel

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That is an exceptionally odd number.

Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. Railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them that way?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

So why did the wagons have that particular odd spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

The ruts in the roads, which everyone had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels, were first formed by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's butt came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back end of two war horses.

Thus we have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story.......

When we see a space shuttle sitting on it's launching pad, there are two booster rockets attached to the side of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in mountains. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's butt!!!

Don't you just love engineering?
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My brain hurts now

floodedkiwi · Jan 28, 2019

RickS said: ↑

Morning/Afternoon all. For your reading pleasure.

Engineering Romans Space Travel

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That is an exceptionally odd number.

Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. Railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them that way?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

So why did the wagons have that particular odd spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

The ruts in the roads, which everyone had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels, were first formed by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's butt came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back end of two war horses.

Thus we have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story.......

When we see a space shuttle sitting on it's launching pad, there are two booster rockets attached to the side of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in mountains. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's butt!!!

Don't you just love engineering?
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And the horses back then were skinner than the ones today, or maybe I'm thinking about people, shit I don't know... Monday on my mind

ImpulseRed008 · Jan 28, 2019

US Marine said: ↑

I just asked my Google assistant and she said 32 days
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She needs to go back to school. Alexa said it's 52 days

Bluegrass Taco said: ↑

Yep. Google shows 1st day of spring is March 1. Someone at Google made a mistake.... then says It's March 20th.

Trust Farmers Almanac
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Bluegrass Taco said: ↑

If I didn't know better I'd say It's monday.

Neurologist just called. Looks like we're starting over. I have a lot of Parkinsons symptoms. Also a family history of Parkinsons. My regular physician said It's Parkinsons. She sent me to a neurologist. He ran all the tests. Said I reported quite a few symptoms that aren't consistent with Parkinsons. So he started clean slate...

Further testing required before treatment begins but it appears I have an advanced case of MS. He said I need to start applying for disability asap.

More joy....
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it's the lesser of the evils. Good the doc is starting from scratch and not just guessing what it is.

CVYota[OP] said: ↑

Morning all

Wish you had our weather. High of 76°, low of 61°.

I'm getting tired of waiting for someone to see their new pic on page one.
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who's pic?

RickS said: ↑

Morning/Afternoon all. For your reading pleasure.

Engineering Romans Space Travel

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's butt!!!

Don't you just love engineering?
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Hope the 5 officers shot is Houston survive!!!

evening all

Martin64 · Jan 28, 2019

RickS said: ↑

Morning/Afternoon all. For your reading pleasure.

Engineering Romans Space Travel

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That is an exceptionally odd number.

Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. Railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them that way?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

So why did the wagons have that particular odd spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

The ruts in the roads, which everyone had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels, were first formed by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's butt came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back end of two war horses.

Thus we have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story.......

When we see a space shuttle sitting on it's launching pad, there are two booster rockets attached to the side of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in mountains. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's butt!!!

Don't you just love engineering?
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Kolunatic said: ↑

My brain hurts now
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I see a lot of horse's asses going down the road...

Good evening folks. Didn't have to get up till 0530, woke up at 0300. 0312 got up, turned on coffee. Didn't have to be to work till 0700, drove through the gate at 0430. Caught up with office gossip, went to the field to recon for any damages. Got in an hour and 45 minutes OT. Going to stack as much OT as I can just in case...

Taco-Grinder · Jan 28, 2019

RickS said: ↑

Morning/Afternoon all. For your reading pleasure.

Engineering Romans Space Travel

Railroad Tracks The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That is an exceptionally odd number.

Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and the U.S. Railroads were built by English expatriates.

Why did the English build them that way?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

So why did the wagons have that particular odd spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

The first long distance roads in Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?

The ruts in the roads, which everyone had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels, were first formed by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's butt came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back end of two war horses.

Thus we have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story.......

When we see a space shuttle sitting on it's launching pad, there are two booster rockets attached to the side of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRB's might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in mountains. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's butt!!!

Don't you just love engineering?
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I'm going to save this because someday I may need it. Then someone is going to say, "Just how in the hell do you know that?"
I learned it on the Internet.

Kolunatic · Jan 28, 2019

Martin64 said: ↑

I see a lot of horse's asses going down the road...

Good evening folks. Didn't have to get up till 0530, woke up at 0300. 0312 got up, turned on coffee. Didn't have to be to work till 0700, drove through the gate at 0430. Caught up with office gossip, went to the field to recon for any damages. Got in an hour and 45 minutes OT. Going to stack as much OT as I can just in case...
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Coffee gossip is the devil
Just sayin

Kolunatic · Jan 28, 2019

ImpulseRed008 said: ↑

She needs to go back to school. Alexa said it's 52 days

it's the lesser of the evils. Good the doc is starting from scratch and not just guessing what it is.

who's pic?

Hope the 5 officers shot is Houston survive!!!

evening all
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Not mine yet

MoneyMan55 · Jan 28, 2019

Good Monday. Recycled cans and scrap metal. Signed Legion book around 12, had free food (spaghetti and meatballs), couple Sam Adams cold snaps. Had supper ready for my Amanda when she came through door after her work. Boneless chicken breast with special sauce, no yolk noodles and broccoli and cheese, garlic rolls. Man retirement could really suit me...

vssman · Jan 28, 2019

@Bluegrass Taco, hopefully the doctor determines what it really is and it turns out to be a very treatable condition. I'll keep you in my prayers.

US Marine · Jan 28, 2019

Evening Everyone !!!!

Tacoma Mike · Jan 28, 2019

Fixin shit tonight.
Still waiting for new gears for a car..
So replacing sheared drive pins.

CVYota · Jan 28, 2019

ImpulseRed008 said: ↑

who's pic?
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Dog cop

MTgirl · Jan 28, 2019

CVYota[OP] said: ↑

Morning all

Wish you had our weather. High of 76°, low of 61°.

I'm getting tired of waiting for someone to see their new pic on page one.
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CVYota[OP] initial post: ↑

CVyota

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are you the one on the left or the right? such a strong family resemblance I can't seem to tell....

Tacoma Mike · Jan 28, 2019

MTgirl said: ↑

are you the one on the left or the right? such a strong family resemblance I can't seem to tell....
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That was mentioned before.

MTgirl · Jan 28, 2019

Tacoma Mike said: ↑

That was mentioned before.
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I don't read back... I just jump in on the last page and pretend that I know what's going on. Besides, you old folks talk too much. Can't keep up with you all

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