I hate this meme. Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool". And the other person still decides to use lethal force. That is diabolical, not funny.
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.
"What are you going to do, lob a stone at me from 300m away?" shouted the man on the parapet, moments before impact.
I hate this meme. Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool". And the other person still decides to use lethal force. That is diabolical, not funny.
Diabolically funny, you mean.
> Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool".
That strikes me as a wildly incorrect interpretation of the situation in the meme.
My reading is closer to a man on a parapet shouting "neener neener you can't touch me" moments before being touched by a rock at high velocity
Yup, my favorite is the ‘what are you going to do, stab me? -stabbed man’ quote from the news interview hah.
"...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."
That seems like a contradiction.
But have they identified the trebuchet that killed him?
We can rule out Warwolf [1] my favorite trebuchet, which never killed anyone.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf
Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).
Indeed, I am sure there are other mechanisms that could cause similar trauma.
Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
> Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”
Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice
Instant unconsciousness. Hopefully he didn't wake up.
How do you know that? Is it confirmed that this led to instant unconsciousness?
> 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.
Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
War… war never changes.
Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either.
I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331555
dude got absolutely rocked
What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball
Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.