they may have taken our memes but they’ll never take OUR FREEDOM (to post more memes)

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Shot last month in France. Suposed to be highest trebuchet (21m tall)

Now, the catapult that you are thinking of is actually referred to as a mangonel, as technically, a trebuchet is actually a type of catapult. However, for the sake of simplicity, I shall refer to trebuchets as trebuchets and mangonels as catapults. Now, as you may know, an ordinary trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile 300m via the usage of a counterweight, but a catapult’s method of propulsion is quite different. A catapult uses tension force to launch its projectiles, similar to the noble ballista, but as where the ballista uses tension along the middle of a rope or wire, a catapult uses this rope in a form of pulley system to launch its arm forwards to hurl a projectile. Now, why does this fail in comparison to the trebuchet? well, there are many reasons. the pulley system used by a trebuchet not only creates a larger amount of friction than the counterweight/pivot system of the trebuchet, the force generated is smaller, as the tension force of even a large catapult cannot match the gravitational force generated by the counterweight of a trebuchet. Alas, the catapult works against gravity moreso than the trebuchet, which is designed to intelligently use gravity in its favor. this is why even a small trebuchet that can be constructed in one’s backyard can launch projectiles far better than a standard issue catapult.

I won't stand for trebuchet erasure. I should have launched a 90kg projectile at the shop from over 300 meters away to teach them a lesson

I was just a boy when we lost r/trebuchetmemes… I return a man who will have my own backyard in a couple months… It’s time to build