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Cute. It is around 8 feet long and per the comments, it throws tennis balls. Throwing a tennis ball at supersonic speed is nothing to sneeze at, but the reall
by throwaway81523 5y ago
Cute. It is around 8 feet long and per the comments, it throws tennis balls. Throwing a tennis ball at supersonic speed is nothing to sneeze at, but the really impressive thing about historical and modern trebuchets is how big some of them got. They could throw things like pianos, as in a famous Northern Exposure episode. Doing that supersonically would have really been something ;).
- mlindner 5y ago> per the comments Why are you believing comments over what the content of a video/article is? And you're wrong.
- throwaway81523 5y agoThe article didn't say either way. The comments gave info that I didn't particularly have reason to disbelieve. I didn't have any interest in watching the video once I found the info I wanted. The article could have just said "it throws ball bearings" but it didn't, making it useless.
- InitialLastName 5y agoThe comment you're referring to is about the trebuchet that the commenter built (not the subject of the article). The article itself is blogspam that adds effectively zero content to the video other than to capture some advertising traffic.
- tantalor 5y agoNo, it throws ball bearings.
- pacificmint 5y ago> They could throw things like pianos One example: Trebuchet throws a piano that has been set on fire at Burning Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgboQNcRN5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgboQNcRN5w
- speedgoose 5y agoSuch a dense crowd doesn't seem to be the best environment to throw a burning piano with a trebuchet, but I guess I don't get the point of the burning man.
- Robotbeat 5y agoLiterally just watch the video.