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Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by DocTomoe on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:12AM (#33996606)
Just google why the Space Shuttle/SLS SRB were the size they are. Hint: It has to do with Roman war chariots.
Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by liotier on Thursday December 15, 2022 @05:19AM (#33997489)
It has to do with ass width.
Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by lproven on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:32AM (#33997974)
It's an urban legend.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

Basically there are loads of different railway gauges around the world, and indeed, inside the USA itself, which historically had no single standard size.

All roads, railways, and thus tunnels and bridges everywhere are very approximately multiples of the width of a horse's pectoral/pelvic girdles. Nothing especially Roman or anything else about it.