benveniste (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} benveniste) wrote,@ 2009-07-12 15:07:00 |
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Twang
Doing some channel surfing this morning, I came across a show on the Military Channel called Weapon Masters. I didn't catch the first part of the "Chariot Bow" episode, but for some reason they were shooting a shock-absorber mounted, gyroscope stabilized, modern high-tech crossbow from a replicate of a 3300 year-old Egyptian chariot.
They neither tried to improve the chariot nor did they put a laser sight on the crossbow. Either would have violated authenticity, I guess. But crossbows (c. 500 BC), coil-springs (c. 1400 A.D), and gyro-stabilizers (c. 1900 A.D) were perfectly okay.
Creative anachronisms indeed.
Doing some channel surfing this morning, I came across a show on the Military Channel called Weapon Masters. I didn't catch the first part of the "Chariot Bow" episode, but for some reason they were shooting a shock-absorber mounted, gyroscope stabilized, modern high-tech crossbow from a replicate of a 3300 year-old Egyptian chariot.
They neither tried to improve the chariot nor did they put a laser sight on the crossbow. Either would have violated authenticity, I guess. But crossbows (c. 500 BC), coil-springs (c. 1400 A.D), and gyro-stabilizers (c. 1900 A.D) were perfectly okay.
Creative anachronisms indeed.
