Timeline for Would a hill covered with 10,000 dead rabbits and soaked with 5,000 liters of wine present an impediment to charging horse-mounted cavalry?
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| Aug 18, 2017 at 17:37 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | "There's no way to directly threaten the army via rabbit blood and wine. " I'd probably just use one, live rabbit...youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 14:22 | history | edited | CaM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | CaM | @Richard if you're going to freeze them anyway, no need for orbit. Just fire them directly at your enemy. youtube.com/watch?v=sCQ2oZtVNpg | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 11:31 | comment | added | Richard | @MaciejPiechotka - Chuck 'em hard enough and you'll get an airburst. Chuck 'em at 99.99999% the speed of light and they'll turn into plasma before they hit the ground. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 11:27 | comment | added | OrangeDog | @Richard well now you're just adding more logistical problems :p | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 11:26 | comment | added | Richard | @orangedog - 5000 litres of wine and 10,000 rabbits would be a chunk of dirty ice 50 cubic metres. That'd make a fair hole in the ground if you dropped it from high orbit straight downward, even taking into account air resistance | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 11:03 | comment | added | ICWiener | This is an epic answer | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 10:31 | comment | added | OrangeDog | @Richard you mean like rain | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 10:17 | comment | added | Innovine | upvote for "squeeze hard, lads!" :) That made me laugh | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 9:40 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | The frustrating thing for the King is that there's way more meat than that in the supply train for an army of 10,000, but the teamsters' guild insists on killing all the rabbits prior to transporting them. It's in their contract. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 5:58 | comment | added | A C | Knowing rabbits, once you catch the first two rabbits you'll probably get to 10,000 pretty quickly. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 5:00 | comment | added | Clonkex | lmao there's so many great answers to this question! xD | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 23:26 | comment | added | CaM | I am reminded of this Xkcd. Moles, but suddenly seems relevant. what-if.xkcd.com/4 | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 22:48 | comment | added | Maja Piechotka | @Richard wouldn't they burn on reentry? | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 22:15 | comment | added | Sarriesfan | As I have said in a comment to answer below there were people in medieval England who were in charge of wrangling rabbits. Anyone with the surname Warrener or Warren probably had an ancestor who did guard the warrens where rabbits were breed for meat and their fur. But I agree the number of rabbits is very high. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 22:10 | comment | added | Richard | "There's no way to threaten the army via rabbit blood and wine" - Dropping the rabbits and wine from orbit would do it. | |
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | CaM | TL;DR: Seems like a horrible, tragic, waste of perfectly good wine to me. | |
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 19:11 | history | answered | CaM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |