Interesting that "Mother, 33" doesn't have a name
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
879 points (98.9% liked)
Science Memes
10587 readers
2535 users here now
Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
- Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
- Keep it rooted (on topic).
- No spam.
- Infographics welcome, get schooled.
Research Committee
Other Mander Communities
Science and Research
Biology and Life Sciences
- !abiogenesis@mander.xyz
- !animal-behavior@mander.xyz
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !arachnology@mander.xyz
- !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !biology@mander.xyz
- !biophysics@mander.xyz
- !botany@mander.xyz
- !ecology@mander.xyz
- !entomology@mander.xyz
- !fermentation@mander.xyz
- !herpetology@mander.xyz
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !medicine@mander.xyz
- !microscopy@mander.xyz
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !nudibranchs@mander.xyz
- !nutrition@mander.xyz
- !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !photosynthesis@mander.xyz
- !plantid@mander.xyz
- !plants@mander.xyz
- !reptiles and amphibians@mander.xyz
Physical Sciences
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !chemistry@mander.xyz
- !earthscience@mander.xyz
- !geography@mander.xyz
- !geospatial@mander.xyz
- !nuclear@mander.xyz
- !physics@mander.xyz
- !quantum-computing@mander.xyz
- !spectroscopy@mander.xyz
Humanities and Social Sciences
Practical and Applied Sciences
- !exercise-and sports-science@mander.xyz
- !gardening@mander.xyz
- !self sufficiency@mander.xyz
- !soilscience@slrpnk.net
- !terrariums@mander.xyz
- !timelapse@mander.xyz
Memes
Miscellaneous
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Have you never read a newspaper before?
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.
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...
load more comments
(1 replies)
There’s a restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok that launches a whole rotisserie chicken from a slingshot over the guests tables and impales on a spike on the helmet of a guy on a unicycle next to your table
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.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Being "trebuchet master" without "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics"... doubt
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
To be pedantic, that's still covered under E
I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.
I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)
It’s like, a right of passage or something.
I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.
I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
load more comments
(2 replies)
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
load more comments
(5 replies)
I'm a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made
Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
Mother, 33, stops being a scientist to do science.
~~science~~ engineering
Siege engineering to be precise
load more comments
(4 replies)
The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.
Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
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".
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.
Building a trebuchet to hurl rocks is stem though
It didn't say she builds them though
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
100 hours of aoe2 and we've got a deal
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn't one of their colonies?
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
I would, too. Which is the more exciting job? Unfortunately there probably isn't much call for a trebuchet bombardment these days.
Fun fact, only one trebuchet has ever been deployed for combat in the new world.
The conquistadors and coalition forces built one during the siege of Tenochitlan, they tried to fire it but the sling snapped, rock went up, rock came back down.
Thus ended the storied military record of trebuchets in the new world.
That's fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years
load more comments
(2 replies)
What's the distance on those things?
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.
load more comments
(4 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
Scientist in the UK wear surgical caps and carry stethoscopes? I guess doctors are a subcategory of scientists.
view more: next ›