Idea

[The Stranger]

that guy........Of Syracuse mounted ballistas on ships. he's a ancillery...what if you guys would make a trigger that made it possible to build Ballista Ships if you had him as ancillery...as well for other people that did this kinda thing

[jerby]

you mean Archimedes?

[RandyKapp]

Lets add archimedes death ray too.

[jerby]

you mean those mirrors of him? bruning ships and all?

I absolutly loved the idea...altough i doubt it would work...seen Mythbusters?

and we shouldnt forget his iron hand...


but i guess bartix is a candidate for a deathray..but then a uranian one..not archimedes's

[QwertyMIDX]

http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lecture...desResult.html

[jerby]

http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/lecture...desResult.html

that was very very nice....
didn't think it would've worked.
nice site, good read.
but for EB no more than a humor-trait i guess...

[The Stranger]

you mean Archimedes?

no his name was Dyonisus

[The Stranger]

cant you guys be serious ...if you dont like the idea just say so...it isnt like the idea is totally moronic...is it??? O_o

[Dux Corvanus]

no his name was Dyonisus

Sure? Archimede was famous for inventing naval war devices such as those. Dionysos, the tyrant of Syracuse, was better known for his revolutionary use of engineering and siege machines in his siege wars. Both of them lived in Syracuse, but 150 years separate them.

In any case, both were very able to do it.