How about making catapults to see how far it can launch a specified weight?

-- Henry P. Steenstra (Packersdude@aol.com/), November 24, 2000

Answers

Definitely! I'm a medieval military historian (civvy) and I'd love to get some of my army pals together to recreate a good siege engine. cheers, dana

-- dcushing (dana.cushing@utoronto.ca), November 25, 2000.

They already did! The catapult episode will air sometime next fall... check out the machines and the results at trebuchet.com

-- Seth Freeman (chick4you88@hotmail.com), November 25, 2000.

sweet ass

-- Martin D. Cunningham (martymart19@hotmail.com), November 28, 2000.