To be pedantic, that’s still covered under E
I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.
I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)
It’s like, a right of passage or something.
I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
yeah. Gotta be careful with them.
even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.
Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
Yeah. You’re not allowed to stuff Easter eggs for Easter.
Also, we’ll add “get the Halloween candy”, too. Probably give people apple 2’s or something,
Rember kids, if you find a USB stick in your easter egg, run home and plug it in to get free candy in Roblox.
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I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.
I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
Cannons are fun too.
In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
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Mother, 33, stops being a scientist to do science.
scienceengineeringSiege engineering to be precise
And M. A lot of M actually. And S. Also T. Put some A in it to make it not threatening.
no M here. you can just launch shot and need no M to explain it. have you ever had fun?
I mean, if this were 1400 AD, sure…
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Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
Only if it’s about a mother though.
I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father is not.
I think it’s more that, for some, becoming a parent is their only life accomplishment, so “reader engagement” is literally, “hey, overlap these two circles, or the middle won’t buy our crap.”
You do get to be a father in news articles. Mainly when they talk about you being deceased though.
I guess it’s bait for people who like to judge. The idea could be: it’s not responsible to quit science for this and being a mother makes irresponsible choices even worse. That’s not my point of view, but I know people whose life seems to be so empty that they feel a constant need to look down on others and the “mother” information gives them at least 5 more minutes of talking shit about how this is a terrible decision.
I see it the other way around. Older people eat up clickbait news, and older people tend to be parents, so identifying the woman as a mother makes them go “she’s someone like me” while identifying her as a scientist is less likely to resonate. It helps some people imagine themselves in her shoes.
It’s been this way since the inception of the news paper. To sell papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you’re a mother you’re more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a “Trebuchet Master”.
Since they specified female, there is presumably also at least one male trebuchet master as well, meaning that the UK considers trebuchets important enough to have multiple trebuchet Masters.
The new alternative to Trident. It’s cheaper to have trebuchets posted around the coastline than nukes scooting around on submarines and offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
Sadly true lol
It’s the cheapest means of getting fresh beef from point A to point B. I am surprised burgericanos haven’t discovered it yet
There’s a restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok that launches a whole rotisserie chicken from a slingshot over the guests tables and impales on a spike on the helmet of a guy on a unicycle next to your table
Now hear me out…Railguns
They said cheapest, not fastest. Ain’t no UK business got railgun delivery money…
Being “trebuchet master” without “Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics”… doubt
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
100 hours of aoe2 and we’ve got a deal
Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn’t one of their colonies?
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
Interesting that “Mother, 33” doesn’t have a name
Have you never read a newspaper before?
Scientist in the UK wear surgical caps and carry stethoscopes? I guess doctors are a subcategory of scientists.
Doesn’t becoming a doctor involve researching something new in the field of medicine?
You’re thinking of a PhD doctor. Medical doctors don’t have to research or publish anything new.
Drag isn’t convinced that physicians are real doctors. Real doctors do research.
As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.
I’ve known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
(Trebuchet) swinger in your area
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
If not STEM, then HEAL? (Health, Education And Learning)
