Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
Only if it’s about a mother though.
I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father is not.
You do get to be a father in news articles. Mainly when they talk about you being deceased though.
I think it’s more that, for some, becoming a parent is their only life accomplishment, so “reader engagement” is literally, “hey, overlap these two circles, or the middle won’t buy our crap.”
It’s been this way since the inception of the news paper. To sell papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you’re a mother you’re more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a “Trebuchet Master”.
Being “trebuchet master” without “Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics”… doubt
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
I would, too. Which is the more exciting job? Unfortunately there probably isn’t much call for a trebuchet bombardment these days.
Fun fact, only one trebuchet has ever been deployed for combat in the new world.
The conquistadors and coalition forces built one during the siege of Tenochitlan, they tried to fire it but the sling snapped, rock went up, rock came back down.
Thus ended the storied military record of trebuchets in the new world.
Not yet.
Perhaps this should be decreed in a new Geneva convention as the only allowed long range missile system? That would make wars less deadly and more useful.
What’s the distance on those things?
Depends on the mass of the projectile, and how the throwing arm is tuned.
If its release is tuned for distance and they’re flinging period-accurate projectiles, tuned firmly distance a typical period tree could throw stones about 300 meters.
Depending on the kind of fortifications they were against (and if they had siege engines of their own, or other artillery- bow and arrows, whatever) they might set up a little closer and tune instead for more forward velocity rather than range.
The typical mass was about 200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan. You could go heavier, but that typically reduced range.
200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan
A small sedan weighs about four times as much as that
Get out of here with your facts.
(for what it’s worth, a reliant robin was about 450 kilo curb weight. I’m sure we can find a car that weighs in the range.)
“They would have been pulled up to a castle, maybe 200-300m away and they could have launched rocks, boulders and flaming boulders into castles,”…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-65099834.amp
And cheese my cows. They could launch cows as well.
1000 meters easy.
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
100 hours of aoe2 and we’ve got a deal
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
Scientist in the UK wear surgical caps and carry stethoscopes? I guess doctors are a subcategory of scientists.
As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.
I’ve known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.
Building a trebuchet to hurl rocks is stem though
It didn’t say she builds them though
(Trebuchet) swinger in your area
It’s the new pineapple on your doorstep.
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
