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Isn't it a little early for Pennsic War Practice?
I'm contemplating taking Krav Maga classes. For book research. And general zombie apocalypse preparedness.
Also, since no one else seems to have asked, what's a ballista?
It's a giant crossbow, essentially.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista
Ours is smaller:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erink/6851376376/in/photostream
It's a giant crossbow, essentially.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista
Ours is smaller:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erink/6851376376/in/photostream
Also, since no one else seems to have asked, what's a ballista?
You guys are such a bunch of geeks. Come on, this is the 21st century. Only geeks would even know what trebuchets and ballistae are. Geeks.*
Where were you when I was in high school? I would not have known who to fall in love with.
*Please notice that I am showing my own geek cred by knowing the proper plural of ballista.
See. I would have been caught. There is no escaping a girl with siege engines.
And we shoot people with it.
Mind you, the bolts are soft-ish. Um, for ballista bolts, anyway.
See, I didn't ask because I already knew, neener neener! I prefer the trebuchets, myself. Much more glamorous, though they don't aim as good.
Trebuchets I know. (Thank you, Mythbusters.)
Siege engines, I know.
The ballista was new to me, however.
See. I would have been caught. There is no escaping a girl with siege engines.
If I can't fire one like this one, I have no interest.
Yeah, that would be ridiculous amounts of fun.
I have friends who built a much smaller-scale one and use it to throw pinatas across their yard.
ETA: I seem to recall some big Mechanical Engineering mag had an article with the specs for one some few decades back. I actually considered building a small one, but my yard was too tiny. (Huh, looks like I'm going to have a larger yard soon...)