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Friday, September 10, 2010

Cool archaeology: cannonballs vs. wooden ships

How good were cannonballs against wooden ships? The obvious way to find out is to experiment, but that's very expensive. Israeli researchers found a way to scale down the experiment and test min-cannonballs against a model of a recovered ship with a thick oaken hull. Cannonballs, they learned, were surprisingly effective.

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