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May 15, 2008
GUYS: CRAZY? OR INSANE?
(Thanks to Claire Martin)
Posted by Dave on May 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM | Permalink
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Trebuchet owners are just misunderstood, not insane.
Mine is stored safely when not in use.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | 11:03 AM on May 15, 2008
insane!
Posted by: rob | 11:04 AM on May 15, 2008
I'm having a pretty funny visual of that harness not detaching.
*splat*
Posted by: Siouxie | 11:06 AM on May 15, 2008
Oh, but I'm sure he got the girl.
*eyelaunchroll*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | 11:07 AM on May 15, 2008
W?hat if they miss the net?
*splat*
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | 11:07 AM on May 15, 2008
The design isn't right. The counterweight is fixed and not on an axle. The machine loses a lot of capability, like 10-15%.
No wheels... another 15% reduction. The angle of release is short and not at 45 degrees.
Could someone hold my beer while I run a few calculations so that the payload could fly a couple hundred years instead of 100 feet?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | 11:11 AM on May 15, 2008
"harness not detaching" would make for a unique pie shot. The payload's greater concern should be a premature launch and a Montezuma.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | 11:15 AM on May 15, 2008
Somehow I think liability insurance would be a killer!
PULL!
*blam*
Posted by: Kibby F5™ | 11:17 AM on May 15, 2008
I keep thinking Coyote/Roadrunner. Just flinging around and hitting the ground.
Posted by: diane | 11:18 AM on May 15, 2008
NMUA, normally I'd agree with you, but as human lives are at stake, it might be better underperforming.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | 11:22 AM on May 15, 2008
Yeah, NMUA, I noticed that too and said to myself, "that's Crazy!"
Posted by: CJrun | 11:22 AM on May 15, 2008
Adnoidal tones. I can speak through my nose, it's fun. I think I'll do that now and hurl myself into space. Should I fall from grace, have a team of surgeons waste part of a day saving my useless life.
Posted by: lil rascal | 11:22 AM on May 15, 2008
I keep thinking of THIS.
Fetchez la vache!
Posted by: Siouxie | 11:24 AM on May 15, 2008
Y'all, this is kid's stuff!
Posted by: Chuck Yeager | 11:27 AM on May 15, 2008
Didn't Chuck yeager break the sound barrier when sound still traveled really slow like when dinosaurs ruled the earth or one celled aomebias? Chuck is also very good in homemade chili.
Posted by: lil rascal | 11:30 AM on May 15, 2008
It's good to be the King.
Posted by: pogo | 11:31 AM on May 15, 2008
Mon dieu! Why didn't I think to use a trebuchet!
Posted by: Yves Rossy | 11:32 AM on May 15, 2008
What was John Glen's last name?
Posted by: lil rascal | 11:32 AM on May 15, 2008
I just read that ant post. Quite disconcerting considering my job there.
Posted by: Elon Weintraub | 11:33 AM on May 15, 2008
Have you seen the guy who landed crooked?
Posted by: lil rascal | 11:40 AM on May 15, 2008
as Sir Gilles de Trebuchet, before testing his invention , said :"Hold my wine, inhaling its delicate bouquet, while at the same time noting its more earthy overtones, while I do this."
Posted by: insomniac | 11:48 AM on May 15, 2008
I saw a farmer do that with pumpkins once.
Posted by: Cat R | 11:48 AM on May 15, 2008
There were some Oxbridge students that missed the landing zone because the woman misestimated her weight. She ended up with a broken pelvis and other injuries.
The second time she went up, the brightest boys of England weighed her and tried again.
This time, the bright boys realized that they didn't do their math correctly. The woman didn't survive the second landing zone miss.
There's a reason for the line in the next verse about what happened when Uzziah became powerful.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | 11:53 AM on May 15, 2008
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | 12:12 PM on May 15, 2008
i thought trebuchet was a typeface! mondieu.
Posted by: queensbee | 12:16 PM on May 15, 2008
Cat R: A farmer did that to Punkin!?!
Posted by: Lairbo | 12:43 PM on May 15, 2008
Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in an aircraft.
Joe Kittinger broke the speed of sound without the assistance of an aircraft when he jumped from a balloon that was 20 miles up (over 100,000 feet).
Chuck Yeager: amateur
Posted by: Gary | 01:28 PM on May 15, 2008
No, pumPkinS, not Punkin.
Posted by: Cat R | 02:42 PM on May 15, 2008
Cat, a local radio station here in Miami does that all the time - The great pumpkin toss. Messy but funny as hell.
Posted by: Siouxie | 03:22 PM on May 15, 2008
Yeager had too many government-paid engineers that had to justify their existence.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | 04:19 PM on May 15, 2008
"The second time she went up"??? I'm sorry she got killed, but what was she thinking?
Posted by: Kristina L. | 11:37 PM on May 15, 2008
