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Message started by Oxnate on Aug 9th, 2020 at 2:10pm

Title: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Oxnate on Aug 9th, 2020 at 2:10pm
New documentary. 

Nothing I didn't already know in the first half, but learned a bit in the second half.  Comments are pretty awesome, too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uDtrwNY0Zk

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Tomas on Aug 12th, 2020 at 9:04pm
Definitely a biased account but I enjoyed it ::)

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Sarosh on Aug 13th, 2020 at 2:33am

Tomas wrote on Aug 12th, 2020 at 9:04pm:
Definitely a biased account but I enjoyed it

biased because it speaks only of balearics?

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Tomas on Aug 13th, 2020 at 3:46am
More like you can tell the writer is a fan of slinging.
Like when a parent says their kid is so great

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Sarosh on Aug 13th, 2020 at 7:59am
oh the title says balearic slingers :-X
I think you could say that for every unit he reviews , seems too generic made for total war fans for the audience it's addressed it's ok

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Kick on Aug 13th, 2020 at 4:05pm
Finally got around to watching it. If it gets people even slightly more interested in slinging, it's a good thing. It is pretty surface level (but then out is only focusing on one slinging culture), but I think we sometimes forget that we're in deep with slinging :D I still have to explain that you let go of one of the ends to make the stone fly when introducing it to some people.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by JudoP on Aug 14th, 2020 at 8:00am
100km/h is a wild underestimate for projectile speed, in the same breath they claim 400m range which requires an absolute minimum of 225km/h (62.6m/s) launch velocity, and with air resistance accounted for likely much more.

100km/h is only 27.8m/s which cannot even reach 80m range in a perfect vacuum.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Oxnate on Aug 14th, 2020 at 8:04pm

JudoP wrote on Aug 14th, 2020 at 8:00am:
100km/h is a wild underestimate for projectile speed, in the same breath they claim 400m range which requires an absolute minimum of 225km/h (62.6m/s) launch velocity, and with air resistance accounted for likely much more.

100km/h is only 27.8m/s which cannot even reach 80m range in a perfect vacuum.


Yes, a bunch of comments pointed out that error.  Theories are they either meant 100 m/s or 400 km/hr.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Waxwing_Sling on Aug 15th, 2020 at 1:51pm
Is the way the narrator says "Balearic" the correct pronunciation? I may have been saying it wrong for years.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Kick on Aug 15th, 2020 at 2:35pm
Wikipedia gives the pronunciation a few different ways:

(/ˌbæliˈærɪk/ BAL-ee-ARR-ik, also US: /ˌbɑːl-/ BAHL-, UK: /bəˈlɪərɪk/ bə-LEER-ik;[1][2] Catalan: Illes Balears ˈiʎəz bələˈas]; Spanish: Islas Baleares[3][4][5] ˈizlaz βaleˈaɾes])[

I mostly used the UK pronunciation (unsurprisingly): bə-LEER-ik
but I've kind of switched to the same pronunciation as the video as I started hearing that more often.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Slingbasket on Sep 19th, 2020 at 10:26am
I enjoyed it!

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Curious Aardvark on Sep 23rd, 2020 at 3:13pm
not bad - shame about the actual slinging animations. Might have been an idea to watch some slingers first :-)

And that's pretty much how I pronounce balearic these days.

Title: Re: Units of History - The Balearic Slingers DOCUMENTARY
Post by Blnkfrst Nolstnam on Sep 23rd, 2020 at 8:12pm
Was I the only one who noticed the crazy look on the animated David's face..?   :-?

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