A Platoon of Trebuchets to Save the World
Okay, I admit I’ve been making some stuff up about Jeff. But this bit is true… really.
Jeff and I have been talking about making trebuchets for years. We have dozens of plans for these things on our computers, but the office supply treb was the first one we could actually afford to build. Sadly, we built it mere hours before we saw the giant treb video. Honestly, why mess about with a seige engine that throws blu-tac when there is one out there that can throw a flaming piano?
And so our goals have grown once again. Not only to buid a trebuchet that can fling car, but one that can fly by wind power alone. Thats right, the world’s first combination trebuchet and kite. After all airplanes are really just great big kites, why not tether seige engine to one and let it rip? Just think of the incredible stealth possibilities. Kites don’t make any noise to speak of and fly so low that radar can’t detect them. And by using a trebuchet there is no bang to alert enemies as to what’s coming. The possibilities are endless.
One snag in our plan is that all of the really good info on kites is in Chinese, and have you ever looked at the language. Very pretty, but very confusing.
Once our working prototype is up and ready we’ll let you know. And then we can fly these bad boys over to Iraq and rain rocks on their missile bases. That’ll show ‘em. With all this flying bombardment we can rule the world! And that will be priceless.
