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		notahacker on March 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Does the International Space Station Have That... I was hoping to see the famous story of path dependency that traces the dimensions of shuttles back through the history of rail gauges back to Roman chariots and the width of two horses http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

bradleyland on March 20, 2015 [–]

Famous, but full of "fudged" facts that make that version of the story more interesting. Snopes has a full drill down.

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

flinty on March 20, 2015 | [–]

I was hoping to see the snopes link as a rebuttal.

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