[Loch-ruadh] Trebuchet project(long)

Bill Osterheim Polydore at worldnet.att.net
Tue May 8 03:25:25 PDT 2001


"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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