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Posted by hermitcrab 4 days ago

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet(www.science.org)
76 points | 51 commentspage 2
petesergeant 3 hours ago|
> indicates horrific demise

If I go, I would like to go from massive blunt trauma from behind that renders me instantly unconscious.

delis-thumbs-7e 2 hours ago|
Well I call you a WIMP! I want to go by literally shitting blood in an agonising pain an fever for weeks on end, like most people in these campaigns often faced their demise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysentery

Actually, you know what, I think you might have a point there. I take back ky harsh words.

shevy-java 6 hours ago||
> 14th century

While this death may be the first confirmed from a trebuchet, is that really the first death by a trebuchet? Plus, I'd say catapults are almost identical to a trebuchet in workings, for the most part. I don't quite believe that this was really the first death by catapult.

pfdietz 4 hours ago||
Catapults store energy using elastic deformation, like a bow; counterweight trebuchets store energy using gravity.
nephihaha 5 hours ago||
Didn't the Romans have something similar?
johanvts 3 hours ago||
The Romans had onagers and ballista, both of which work via string tension. Then around 6AD it seems string traction (mangonels) where introduced from China and finally counterweight/gravity was introduced in the 12th century.
nephihaha 1 hour ago||
Basically more primitive versions of the same.
TheWrongGuy 5 hours ago||
After all these years they finally got someone
noobmasterthrow 4 hours ago||
i read death BY trebuchet, i am disappointed.
27183 9 hours ago||
dude got absolutely rocked
xprnio 8 hours ago||
What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball
kouunji 8 hours ago||
Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.
s20n 6 hours ago|
first confirmed case of MLG noscope