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physics with a grudge, flinging your problems somewhere over the castle wall
means A device that hurls objects through the air using stored mechanical energy, whether an ancient siege engine, a forked toy slingshot, or the system that launches aircraft off a carrier deck.
from From the Greek 'katapeltēs,' built from 'kata-' (down, against) and a root tied to 'pallein' (to hurl or brandish) — so the word itself means roughly 'to throw down against.' It reached English in the 16th century by way of Latin 'catapulta,' arriving as the name for the torsion-powered war machines of antiquity before it ever softened into a child's toy.
- origin word
- Greek for 'against the shield'
- siege diet
- hurled plague corpses to spread disease
- trebuchet beef
- a separate weapon, fans will correct you
- carrier launch
- jets still catapulted off ships today
- world record
- some hurled stones over 300 meters
trebuchet at warwick castle — medieval siege weapon still demonstrated at this english castle, can launch 90kg projectiles over 300 meters
pumpkin chunking world record — delaware competition where air-cannon catapults launched a pumpkin 1,569 feet in 2013