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  1. 04-26-2005, 18:48 #1
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    Default Re: Paper Trebuchet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar
    I found an interesting site where you can download the templates for a Paper Trebuchet: http://www.fryerskits.demon.co.uk/treb/ It should keep me amused for a few days. according to the website it can throw grapes 30ft through the air.
    Looks good, I'm going to build this one with my kids age 7 and 9.
    No offence, Dad enjoys it just as much...
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    Default Re: Paper Trebuchet

    I once built a partice accelerator from a plastic straw, a bag of doritos and some yellow-cake uranium I bought in Africa.
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    Where did you buy the particles?
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    Default Re: Paper Trebuchet

    Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
    Where did you buy the particles?
    they emanate from the uranium, silly.
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_John
    they emanate from the uranium, silly.
    Really?
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    that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_John
    that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?
    To bake the yellow cakes, do'h!
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