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.
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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.
offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.
Sadly true lol
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...
OK now we have the stem girls' attention
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
Being "trebuchet master" without "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics"... doubt
Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.
Interesting that "Mother, 33" doesn't have a name
Have you never read a newspaper before?
wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?
100 hours of aoe2 and we've got a deal
Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn't one of their colonies?
Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it
The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.
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
Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too
Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!
If not STEM, then HEAL? (Health, Education And Learning)
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’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.
The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.
Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
Rember kids, if you find a USB stick in your easter egg, run home and plug it in to get free candy in Roblox.
Yeah. You’re not allowed to stuff Easter eggs for Easter.
Also, we’ll add “get the Halloween candy”, too. Probably give people apple 2’s or something,
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
Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
Uhoh, this about to turn into that scene from Lethal Weapon where they are comparing scars...
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Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
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".
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."
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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.
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