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color=blue size=2 /FONT/FONTFONT face=Arial size=2attached to the
sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.
BRThe SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who
designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the
SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The
railroad line from the factory happens to run BRthrough a tunnel in the
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gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. BRThat's an
exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? BRBRBecause that's the
way they built them in England and English expatriates built the US
Railroads. BR
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the English build them like that? BRBRBecause the first rail lines were
built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways and that's the
gauge they used. BRBRWhy did "they" use that gauge then?
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built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building
wagons, which used that wheel spacing. BR /FONTIMG
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that particular odd wheel spacing? BRBRWell 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.
BRBRSo who built those old rutted roads? BRBR
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long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. /FONTFONT
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ever since. BRBRAnd the ruts in the roads? BRBR /FONTIMG
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initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their
wagon wheels. /FONTFONT face=Arial size=3BR/FONTBRFONT face=Arial
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railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original
specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot./FONT BRFONT
face=Arial size=2And bureaucracies live forever. BRBRSo the next time
you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it,
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Thanks Bill
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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There's probably something screwy in the message HTML code.
If you do a Ctrl-F2 while viewing the message, that will open a Window
with the HTML code. You can copy/paste that here so that we can see it.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Bill" wrote in message
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Mike
OK Thanks - I can see as attachments - but when I change settings in
Tools|Options|Security I still can't get the images to display "inline".
Being a number of them its hard to relate the text to the images.
Any more ideas?
Bill
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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That's an Active-X logo. It means that the HTML code needs to run an
Active-X program to display the image and it can't due to security
settings or other problems.
If you just want to see the images, then select Tools, Options, Read,
Read All messages in plain text. Then switch to another message and
back to the problem one. The images should appear as attachments.
Or you could try changing the security zone for OE to Internet and see
if that works.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Bill" wrote in message
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Bruce
Your very own copy:
BTW what is "IB-CA"?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Its not a red X but a small logo consisting of a red square, a green
circle
and a blue triangle with the name of the file next to it.
/QP
I have not had the pleasure of seeing this before. It may be /how/ it
was
sent, but other than that, I have no idea.
Please keep checking back here. Someone else may well have an answer
for
you.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~