Timeline for How could medieval ships protect themselves from giant mermaids?
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| Apr 3, 2021 at 20:55 | answer | added | PcMan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 20:28 | answer | added | Len | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 1:30 | comment | added | Alexander | @user3482749 for elephants, humans used stalking. For whales, whaling had pretty low rate of success until the development of steam power and explosive harpoons. But most of all, consider DKNguyen's comment below. | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 0:22 | comment | added | user3482749 | @Alexander We spent literally centuries hunting whales and elephants with precisely that kind of firepower. | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 17:58 | comment | added | Kyle J V | Make a deal with Ursula. | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 12:11 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | I'd have thought an effective attack for these mer-people would be to pick up a big rock and bash a hole in the ship from under water. That is going to be hard to defend against from above. Also breaking the rudder or steering oar will disable a ship without sinking it. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54292317 | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 2:32 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 20:23 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Given the limits you made up, no ship is going to survive battle with that mermaid gang. Is your medieval ship something like this replica of SS Matthew, from 1497? That beauty is 78ft long and displaces 85 tons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…. By contrast a killer whale is about 32ft and 10 tons. What's likely to happen if even one 26ft mermaid attacks a minxy little ship like Matthew? Separately, can you detail "…when apes and hominids split, a third group began to live in the seas"? | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 15:30 | answer | added | Rob | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 11:47 | vote | accept | icewar1908 | ||
| Mar 31, 2021 at 2:04 | answer | added | Alendyias | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 0:40 | comment | added | Alexander | @user3482749 in this particular age, "firepower" means "arrows and harpoons". If the mermaid is careful not to surface within 100 meters of the ship, delivering that "significant amounts of firepower" would become problematic. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 0:34 | comment | added | user3482749 | @Alexander Humans are really quite good at dealing with things that don't have any particular vulnerabilities other than application of significant amounts of firepower by means other than "treat and negotiate". | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | Alexander | @user3482749 which sounds to me as lack of any particular vulnerability. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 0:25 | comment | added | user3482749 | @Alexander If push comes to shove, most things have a "being shot with lots of [insert projectile weapon of choice]s" vulnerability. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 23:48 | answer | added | user1547672 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:42 | answer | added | Daniel B | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:33 | comment | added | icewar1908 | @user3067860 i'll post it soon | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:28 | comment | added | user3067860 | @icewar1908 Do you want to post it, or shall I? | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:26 | comment | added | icewar1908 | @user3067860 "how would giant mermaids wage raids/warfare against ships" you know that could be an interesting question, especially if its other land nations hiring them. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 20:11 | comment | added | user3067860 | I almost want to do a spinoff of this asking for strategies of how the mermaids will attack...I have some ideas that would make it much harder to defend against them! | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 19:08 | history | edited | icewar1908 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:54 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:39 | answer | added | BirdNerd | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 16:27 | answer | added | Rob Mueller | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 12:06 | answer | added | DeathClawProductions | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 12:00 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 6:59 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 30, 2021 at 1:27 | answer | added | Duncan Urquhart | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 1:27 | answer | added | spacecat | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 1:00 | answer | added | Kristian Berry | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 0:39 | answer | added | Bryan McClure | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 23:23 | history | edited | Otkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 23:23 | history | edited | Mary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 23:11 | comment | added | Alexander | If mermaids don't have any particular vulnerabilities, humans can only treat and negotiate. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 23:11 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 91 | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 22:49 | history | asked | icewar1908 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |