[Loch-ruadh] Trebuchet project(long)

[r baker]

2 words...... Wet Sand

Trygg


--- Bill Osterheim <Polydore at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>
> "Sluggy!" wrote:
>
> > Adam Harrison wrote:
> >
> > > We're looking for the largest weight per volume
> as to
> > > have the smallest size counterweight that's
> still
> > > extremely heavy.  The material that wins this
> contest
> > > is lead.
> >
> > Maybe we can pop down to the chemist and obtain a
> bit of dubnium, which
> > is supposedly the heaviest metalic element that
> doesn't decay into
> > something else within a few milliseconds. A
> trebuchet using this as a
> > counterweight would be pretty expensive as it is
> manufactured by fusing
> > californium or berkelium with nitrogen, but the
> counterweight would be
> > 20% heavier than a lead one the same size.
> >
> > Ok, I'm going to bed now....
> >
> > Sluggy!
> >
>
> Thank you for volinteering to get such - we need
> about 500 pounds!
>
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