Re: Tech building

In article <pa6dnbrcv68tRZXYnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ben Crowell <"crowell06 at lightSPAMandISmatterEVIL.com"> wrote:

If you know a ridiculous amount about 19th-century
firearms, and decide to fudge about the properties of a particular
revolver for plot purposes, nobody's going to know or care.

Yes.

I learned what I could about trebuchets. I worked out on internal
evidence the distance between a trebuchet and a bridge it was throwing
rocks at. I concluded that the distance was at least fifty yards greater
than the range of an actual trebuchet.

I then ignored that conclusion and wrote the scene anyway. I doubt
anyone has noticed or will notice, other than those who have seen me
mention it.

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