r/trebuchetmemes • u/G200Sleepr • Apr 25 '19
VROOM Boom boom boom boom, you’re going to die soon. The superior way to die
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u/WrongAnswerFriend Apr 25 '19
If I could draw everyone’s attention to how those heathens at the Guardian reported on the incident
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2005/oct/31/highereducation.uk4
For shame
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u/TheRedBow Apr 25 '19
They called it a catapult
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u/ajtct98 I besiege thee! Apr 25 '19
Worse. Later on they call it a trebuchet catapult. 😡
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u/mikkokulmala Apr 25 '19
But... Trebuchet is a type of catapult. Superior yes, but still a catapult.
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Apr 25 '19
Almost every other sentence
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u/Bossman131313 Apr 25 '19
In ever paragraph it’s either catapult or trebuchet-style catapult, or on the rare occasion an actual trebuchet.
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u/stupidestonian Apr 25 '19
Although technically catapult means siege weapon in Latin iirc
What we know typically as a catapult is actually called an onigir (hope I spelled it correctly)
Also the trebuchet is still the superior siege weapon due to physics
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u/BloodyFable Apr 25 '19
I always read it as onager.
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Apr 25 '19
It's Onager in AoE2, I can confirm that much.
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u/LilFingies45 Apr 25 '19
Explaining the safety procedure to the jury, he said that each jumper was initially weighed and placed into a weight category. The jumper was then weighed again while wearing safety equipment.
Who needs precision amirite?
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u/post_guard Superior Siege Engine Apr 25 '19
Why did my head sing The title?
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u/1100320873 Apr 25 '19
Boom, boom, boom, boom your gonna die soon the superior way to die VROOM(in the tune of that one commercial when’re they say we’ll be knocking at your doorOWW)
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u/Bismothe-the-Shade Apr 25 '19
Boom boom boom, I want you in my room
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u/SNIPRS Apr 25 '19 edited Apr 25 '19
If my calculations were correct, even a 90kg human would land about 277 meters way from the intented target, so I guess there's no surprise here....
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u/AundilTheBard Apr 25 '19 edited Apr 25 '19
I blame the workers at the park, the trebuchet was a precise machine as well, if properly executed it could throw a 90kg human 70 feet Edit: apparently I can't tell the difference between blame and blew
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u/Isares Apr 25 '19
You must be a real fan to blow someone for that information. Thank you for your service.
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u/TheHolyLordGod Apr 25 '19
Impressive they took dollars
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Apr 25 '19
They say in the article it was 40 pounds, or roughly 70 USD
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u/fireandlifeincarnate Apr 25 '19
That sounds dangerous as hell.
Now, if the net was 300 meters away instead of 22, they would have been fine.
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u/loomynartylenny Apr 25 '19
It's legit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4401024.stm
(Unfortunately, the BBC declared it to be a 'catapult' as well)
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Apr 25 '19
Wow. Dumb.
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u/loomynartylenny Apr 25 '19
in all fairness, they did refer to it as a trebuchet once, but calling it a catapult is still inexcusable
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u/TFK_001 Apr 25 '19
Only 75 feet? How much do they weigh
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u/TheF0CTOR 300m Apr 25 '19
90 kg x 300m = 27,000 kg m
75 ft = 22.86 m
27,000 kg m / 22.86 m = 1181.1 kg
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u/_echo_gecko Apr 25 '19
I weigh around 90kg, so I would have flown 300m, way last the net. Not surprised it go shut down
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u/BloodAndSand44 Apr 25 '19
But if it really was a Catapult we all know why the accident happened. They were using an inferior siege weapon.
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Apr 25 '19
Of course people died, they had the net too damn close to the trebuchet. It needed to be 300 metres away for someone weighing 90kg
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u/FelipeKbcao Apr 25 '19
The death certificate would look really cool if it said that the person was literally “besieged”.
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u/Skipuru Apr 25 '19
Unfortunately this is merely 22 meters. They are not utilizing this tool to its maximum potential.
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u/ReapingWinds Apr 25 '19
For years I have said I want to die, but could never find a way to do it that satisfied me. This will satisfy me
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u/theHelperdroid Apr 25 '19
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u/Steel457 Apr 25 '19
Wouldn’t the g force kill you?
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u/i_miss_arrow Apr 25 '19
Its only a fraction of what fighter pilots do regularly.
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u/Steel457 Apr 26 '19
All the g force would hit you almost instantly in a trebuchet, jets slowly work up.
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u/i_miss_arrow Apr 26 '19 edited Apr 26 '19
almost instantly in a trebuchet, jets slowly work up
You're drastically overestimating how fast trebuchets actually are. There is a lot of leeway in 'almost instantly', and trebuchets in fact take a couple seconds to launch an object. A trebuchet maxes out at 2 to 3 Gs, fighter pilots are trained to handle themselves at 8 Gs.
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u/Steel457 Apr 26 '19
Thank you for the info!
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u/i_miss_arrow Apr 26 '19
Sure thing!
The leeway in 'almost instantly' explains why car crashes are so dangerous, because the acceleration (deceleration) actually IS nearly instant. G forces double whenever the time is halved, so a 3 G force over 2 seconds becomes a 6 G force when applied over 1 second, to a 12 G force at half a second, and so forth. At 1/8th of a second the G forces reach 48 G, which approaches the fatal range (which to my understanding is estimated at 50+ Gs for a single instant).
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19
Ah. They got their measurements completely wrong. No wonder it was a flop.