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Cute. It is around 8 feet long and per the comments, it throws tennis balls. Throwing a tennis ball at supersonic speed is nothing to sneeze at, but the really impressive thing about historical and modern trebuchets is how big some of them got. They could throw things like pianos, as in a famous Northern Exposure episode. Doing that supersonically would have really been something ;).

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> They could throw things like pianos

One example: Trebuchet throws a piano that has been set on fire at Burning Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgboQNcRN5w

Such a dense crowd doesn't seem to be the best environment to throw a burning piano with a trebuchet, but I guess I don't get the point of the burning man.

No, it throws ball bearings.

Literally just watch the video.

> per the comments

Why are you believing comments over what the content of a video/article is? And you're wrong.

The article didn't say either way. The comments gave info that I didn't particularly have reason to disbelieve. I didn't have any interest in watching the video once I found the info I wanted. The article could have just said "it throws ball bearings" but it didn't, making it useless.

The comment you're referring to is about the trebuchet that the commenter built (not the subject of the article).

The article itself is blogspam that adds effectively zero content to the video other than to capture some advertising traffic.

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