MOB:
> Thanks Nick, for pointing out that the standard Roman chariot axle length
> was no doubt based on the standard Roman horse's backside!
What a charmingly naïve vision of the standardisation process. ;-) It's not so much that all horses have arses of the same width, as that said process (see [1] Procrustes, [2] Bill Gates) produces a 'standard' which is 'based on' the thing being standardised in some largely subliminal sense...
ObGlorantha: do we still have 'key miles' these days? What is the new game going to use, by way of "standard" (see disclamator remarks above...) units of measurement?
Cheers,
Alex.
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