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No, the post about OpenCV and BGR talks (for about 80% of it's length) about how everything we know in transportation, up to space shuttle, is linked to horse w
by kalenx 8y ago
No, the post about OpenCV and BGR talks (for about 80% of it's length) about how everything we know in transportation, up to space shuttle, is linked to horse width.
Which, as pointed out in the link I provided, is simply false (or at the very least a gross oversimplification).
- yreg 8y agoThe author stated that the story is "not-so-true" and copied from Snopes, but he didn't include the debunking.
- ballenf 8y agoOne of the key points of the "debunking" seems to itself make a logical error: > The eventual standardization of railroad gauge in the U.S. was due far less to a slavish devotion to a gauge inherited from England than to the simple fact that the North won the Civil War and, in the process, rebuilt much of the Southern railway system to match its own But the article earlier states that the North won the Civil War because of the logistical superiority of its rail lines that had settled on using the English standard gauge. Even if the South had settled on a single alternative gauge, they would have been unable to easily acquire rail equipment from abroad without added expense. Snopes' attempt at debunking achieves the opposite in my reading.