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Sheesh, calm down, consumer. Nobody is pissing in your gunpowder-flavored cornflakes.

Have you ever climbed a mountain with the intent to live on it for a month, doing re-wilding work? I don’t think you have. You will not be happy about having to climb back down to replenish the ammo can.

Mountains don’t have supply chains. Neither do remote rewilding areas. A low-cost, low-dependency, highly reusable device for throwing small things, long distances, is of immense value - even to our always-on, subscription-based cultures.

> It'll weigh less and last longer than whatever rube-Goldberg trebuchet design you have.

This is false and unimaginative. Put the optimized trebuchet in a backpack and get out there for months, chucking things around without requiring a single re-supply mission.

>manufactured cheaply by the billions

Are you even paying attention to the fact that this thing doesn’t need to have anything else manufactured for it in order to operate usefully?

Seriously, I don’t want to hear your consumption-addled argument. No, the point is to NOT have to constantly be dependent on a supply chain.

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>This is false and unimaginative.

A good one will weigh about 5 pounds and not have moving parts to break. Ferment your own alcohol from plants you grow yourself. You can at least do that much, right?

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A good one will have as few parts as possible, and be optimized for both portability and distances.

>Ferment your own alcohol from plants you grow yourself

I suppose I could just harvest gunpowder from the bullet trees that grow all over candy-land, too.

Or, I could just have an ultra-optimized trebuchet in my backpack for throwing things with very little effort besides the energy (me) required to reload it, wind it up, and let ‘er rip ..

by anon_cow111150 minutes ago|

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Well I'd recommend you get out there on a mountain with a trebuchet and try it, because you're certainly not convincing anyone in this thread so far.

by MomsAVoxell38 minutes ago|

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Nobody in this thread has demonstrated anything but a distinct lack of imagination though, so I’m not bothered by convincing anyone.

It’s like saying “why would you use a bow and arrow when you’ve got a 50 caliber machine gun industry right there, ready to help you blow things up”.

I’d use a bow and arrow in the same context - so that I don’t have to have an entire industry dependency just to survive and/or do stuff in the wild.

And before you change the context and say “yeah, why don’t use just use a bow and arrow to do your seed-bombing, huh hippy?”, that thought of course crossed my mind. Soon as I find a supersonic capable bow, that is.