Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
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Only if it's about a mother though.
I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father is not.
You do get to be a father in news articles. Mainly when they talk about you being deceased though.
I think it's more that, for some, becoming a parent is their only life accomplishment, so "reader engagement" is literally, "hey, overlap these two circles, or the middle won't buy our crap."
I guess it's bait for people who like to judge. The idea could be: it's not responsible to quit science for this and being a mother makes irresponsible choices even worse. That's not my point of view, but I know people whose life seems to be so empty that they feel a constant need to look down on others and the "mother" information gives them at least 5 more minutes of talking shit about how this is a terrible decision.
I see it the other way around. Older people eat up clickbait news, and older people tend to be parents, so identifying the woman as a mother makes them go “she’s someone like me” while identifying her as a scientist is less likely to resonate. It helps some people imagine themselves in her shoes.
It's been this way since the inception of the news paper. To sell papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you're a mother you're more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a "Trebuchet Master".
Since they specified female, there is presumably also at least one male trebuchet master as well, meaning that the UK considers trebuchets important enough to have multiple trebuchet Masters.
The new alternative to Trident. It's cheaper to have trebuchets posted around the coastline than nukes scooting around on submarines and offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
It’s the cheapest means of getting fresh beef from point A to point B. I am surprised burgericanos haven’t discovered it yet
Now hear me out...Railguns
They said cheapest, not fastest. Ain't no UK business got railgun delivery money...
Being "trebuchet master" without "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics"... doubt
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
Interesting that "Mother, 33" doesn't have a name
Have you never read a newspaper before?
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
100 hours of aoe2 and we've got a deal
Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn't one of their colonies?
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.
I've known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.
The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.
What's the distance on those things?
Over 300 meters. Truly the superior siege engine.
But I still love the Ballista.
I've made several over the years for demonstrations using a couple 2x4s, 2 oak dowels, a steel rod, and nylon rope that'll hurl a "bolt" (tube used to separate clubs in a golf bag with a tennis ball on one end) 400 yards.
They're just fun.
Depends on the mass of the projectile, and how the throwing arm is tuned.
If its release is tuned for distance and they’re flinging period-accurate projectiles, tuned firmly distance a typical period tree could throw stones about 300 meters.
Depending on the kind of fortifications they were against (and if they had siege engines of their own, or other artillery- bow and arrows, whatever) they might set up a little closer and tune instead for more forward velocity rather than range.
The typical mass was about 200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan. You could go heavier, but that typically reduced range.
200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan
A small sedan weighs about four times as much as that
"They would have been pulled up to a castle, maybe 200-300m away and they could have launched rocks, boulders and flaming boulders into castles,"...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-65099834.amp
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
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