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(...) I just watched the Siege Weapons edition of the Nova "Secrets of Lost Empires" miniseries on PBS. Basically, the hour-long show focused on the efforts of two groups of people to build two slightly different trebuchets using medieval methods, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Just read an article (I think it was in Smithsonian magazine) about this "experiment". I can look it up if anyone missed the special. (...) Have you observed the range difference with a rolling and non-rolling LEGO model? The article mentioned (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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In lugnet.castle, Jason Catena writes: SNIP (...) over (...) hole (...) Personal recommendation, don't even try for the sling approach. It will require a stout crossbar to stop the throwing arm, but put one of the catapult buckets at the end and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Alas, I was unable to get it to fire properly often enough to make that observation. The figure of "by a half" I got from the wooden model they used in the Nova special, which fired 30 feet when rolling, versus 20 feet when stationary. Another (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Hm. The trebuchets in the Nova special did not have crossbars, but in any event I might be trying to do something a little too tricky for now. The catapult bucket is a really good idea, and I did try to use the bucket-and-arm from the Catapult (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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