Ancient History: Kite bombs
From the article: We investigate the kite bömb - a never before built medieval siege weapön that dropped bómbs from a kite over cities. We build one and test it with startling new insights and success.
We investigate ancient bouncing bõmbs that actually skip across water - ...
Source of article. I saw this on the Ancient Discoveries. Over the weekend I believe, on TV. The key to stability was a long tail......
Here is a source of information given to me by Kiteman, concerning the Ancient Kite Bómbs (arial attacks before the airplane or balloon).
We investigate ancient bouncing bõmbs that actually skip across water - ...
Source of article. I saw this on the Ancient Discoveries. Over the weekend I believe, on TV.
Here is a source of information given to me by Kiteman, concerning the Ancient Kite Bómbs (arial attacks before the airplane or balloon).
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9 years ago
Have you heard of the dam busters? It was a particular type of bomb that skipped along water under an anti bomb net thingo, once it hit the wall the spinning action would send it down till it got to a certain depth and the pressure of the water would set it off. Truly amazing stuff.
Ooh, found it.
www.dambusters.org.uk/
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Isn't evolution of technology amazing?
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Like the Blogs of Moses!
The extant documents are, however, in disrepute at the moment, since they purport Moses as having predicted the success of Enron.
It is also unclear whether Moses used the Ark of the Covenant as a computer (It would have had 20 Hz processing power -- you read that correctly, twenty hertz), or whether Aaron custom-ordered one from Dell.
It contains the first instance of the term "OMG," being used to begin a prayer.
Blogs of Moses, for purified eyes only
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AND
custom-ordered one from Dell.
The same thing?
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That is still a huge debate among scholars of pseudepigrapha today. I take the stance that, no, it isn't necessarily the same thing.
Awwwww, BURN, Dell! Awwwww!
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Perhaps, combining two internet-isms, FTF (For the FAIL).
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I love the technology used in ancient China, with explosives and stuff.
9 years ago
An intriguing part of history.
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darn, the link has been replaced :-(
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That PDF was really interesting. :D
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I don't know if this will be shown in the UK, but I'll try and keep an eye out for it.
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Leveling a canon to near sea level, gave them the ability to just shoot in the direction of a target ship, without worrying whether a LOB would come down in the right place or not. As long as the mortar had enough energy to reach the target, it would hit and explode at close to the water level; sinking the ship.
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The Dam Busters.
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And I thought I had this post. : (
It's a great movie, have you watched it?
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Yes, they actually mentioned that they were probably inspired by this ancient practice (although the ancients used canons anchored on the shore line) :-)
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Gosh...
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I remember showing my buds when I was younger, that I could skip any palm sized or smaller stone they could find.
This just means I wasn't the first to know one can skip round objects across the water LOL