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 Bullet Bill Level: 50 Posts: 106/505 EXP: 898773 Next: 48544 Since: 02-23-07 Last post: 5520 days Last view: 5503 days |
...And became eligible for the VA State Science Fair.  My team won a 1st Place award this afternoon at the ceremony. (Grrr, I wanted the cash prizes from the independent companies!) Who knew that trebuchets were such winning material? There's no practical application anymore today because there are no palisade walls to throw disease-ridden carcasses over the top of to spread disease to the besieged castle town.
Oh well, I guess I should be excited. This is pretty big stuff. There's going to be only two teams from my school going I believe, myself and a chemistry project. After states is the International level down in Albaquerque, New Mexico but I highly doubt I will get to there. Then again, I highly doubted that I would get to states. By the way, regionals were really boring and my friend and I passed the time playing a game where you take turns drawing anything you want as long as you draw it without lifting your pencil. When you do, the other person gets to draw. Then you repeat. We had some weird stuff on the paper we drew on. Maybe I'll scan it in and show you all... ____________________ |
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Level: 82 Posts: 569/1610 EXP: 5117794 Next: 91433 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 3604 days Last view: 4594 days |
Didn't you just make a catapult though? |
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Level: 105 Posts: 935/2846 EXP: 12028179 Next: 234081 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6060 days Last view: 2797 days |
I think a trebuche is a little more complex, but basically a catapult, yes.
Although yeah, I'm honestly amazed you got 1st... oh well, congratulations and here's hoping you do well later. ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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Hats Steam Board2 group Level: 121 Posts: 515/3965 EXP: 19779009 Next: 277687 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden, Skåne Last post: 3301 days Last view: 2052 days |
Yeah, a Trebuche is a medieval siege weapon. Very powerful one too, used to take down forts. Only bad thing with them is that they're usually not very mobile, they were usually built in place.  But anyway, it's one of the most advanced weapons in the medieval times.
Trebuchet article on Wikipedia. Well, I'm not surprised that you won though. Trebuchets tend to look impressing, especially if it's a working copy. How big is it though? << ____________________ AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org
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Level: 75 Posts: 662/1301 EXP: 3717413 Next: 109491 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
Nice job. They really can be complex things to make well.
Science doesn't have to be mixing loads of fluids to make something shine, guys.  |
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Bullet Bill Level: 50 Posts: 108/505 EXP: 898773 Next: 48544 Since: 02-23-07 Last post: 5520 days Last view: 5503 days |
Posted by Ailure The trebuchet is five feet tall, has an arm of 70 inches and a counterweight on the end of about 16 kilograms. Posted by Kles It doesn't, but it sure seems that way for grand prize judging. One guys had some title so complex I swear the smallest word was "lattice." Good god there were complex projects.  ____________________ |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 808/1881 EXP: 6462157 Next: 188507 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6146 days Last view: 6137 days |
Posted by FirePhoenix0 *imagines a project called "Antidisestablishmentarianists Floccinaucinihilipilificating Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"* (i.e., people opposed to the separation of church and state thinking of a form of black lung disease as worthless) I had what I thought was a dumb project for high school, "Are grades affected by watching too much TV?" The worst part was a huge outlier that totally screwed up the correlation for the senior class that I somehow didn't notice or remove. Seriously, the correlations were something like: Freshman 0.012 Sophomore 0.008 Junior 0.009 Senior 0.462 Only 6 people came to my presentation, so I doubt the renegade ever saw the data, but I bet he'd have been laughing his ass off. |
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