a selfbow as you mentioned is made from hard wood. In Europe for example you can use maple, elm, dogwood/cornus, even rose acacia or yew and many others. Especially british longbows were made from yew. ancient greek used cornus mas for the spears of the phalanx. It's also told that the strong bow of Odysseus was made from it. A selfbow is a straight flat stick with two tapered limbs.While double the thickness quadruples the draw weight, doubling the limb width simply doubles it. So you use a ~4cm thick peace of wood and taper its limbs until you get the desired draw weight and profile you desire. A Hunting bow needs at least 50#. British War bows ranged from 70# to 120#. the Skeletons of the people used to draw those weights show clear damages to the shoulder and arm joints because of the shock from releasing arrows.
For a good bow, the main requirement was for the wood to be strong and flexible. Some well-known woods like yew, ash, oak and bamboo made very good bows, but there were none here. Even if there were, Ikaris wouldn't have been able to recognize them. He had to break off a few branches to conduct his tests, but he ended up finding what he wanted.
Fantasy · Arkinslize
is it the grapes or tthe leaves now?
Each Blood Brew Grape was brimming with blood energy.
Eastern · Amber Button
there's no air in open space. what's the use of the maneuvering fin again?
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Sci-fi · Greg112300
yeah... that's not possible. did the math. 30 years are 110 days at 100 times acceleration. But if it's true, calculating with 6 days, a year in this world would have 20 short days.
30-year-old Lafite was already very mellow, and it won't take long for it to breathe. At most, it would take about 10 minutes for the taste to be at its best.
Fantasy · Eternal Dream
he didn't want potbelly to sit at the bar.
This was the first time that the person sitting on the other side of the bar was not an elf. Alan felt a little disappointed. He was not used to it at all.
Fantasy · Eternal Dream
Anybody else thinks the Story about Mei's "coming of age" is missing?
Rei sat alone in the dining room of the mansion, enjoying early breakfast after Ringo decided to cheer his night up after their little conversation about the Mizukage thing. Naturally, that meant Mei decided to join up and one thing led to another...
Anime & Comics · KasiCair
that one's like some friggin Voldemord^^ pale, noseless and you never know if you got them all...
That day, Rei truly became one of Anko's heroes and her loyalty became ironclad, if not very well hidden fanatical one. After all, he pulled a piece of Orochimaru's soul out of her! Anko was still shuddering at that thought.
Anime & Comics · KasiCair
Ever wondered why we use decimal system, writing 10 instead of fictive single digit numbers up to twelve before we get a "thir"-"teen"? well, arabic numbers, alright. But obviously some ancestors couldn't count beyond twelve, or found 12 moonseasons incredibly useful, even making it a duodecimalsystem --> multiples of a dozen. Or did you ever ask yourself why we use 24/ 2 dozen hours a day despite it being gross to calculate with? Or why are there 60 minutes to an hour? maybe because it's 5 dozen minutes? or maybe one hour is defined by the average duration one can listen to a sermon in a church between chimes? Hehe. Well, obviously we are a really advanced society.
[2] Mu (亩) is a unit of area that is often used in Chinese, equal to one-fifteenth of a hectare.
Eastern · Oof
maybe I'm wrong, but "steam" hot enough to do that in a flash should be invisible. Visible is only that part of the steamcloud that already cooled down and condensed into droplets (<100°C). But I don't care, with chakra clearly violating a bunch of scientifc laws.
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Anime & Comics · KasiCair
"cool" - no language barrier at all, I see. But that's not something he wished for...
Reima turns the child dial up to 11 and speaks "I want to be a cool Monster hunter like Mr Geralt and protect people!"
Video Games · Niggross
in that case, momentum increases, or density/aerial drag,...
Lin Yuan rubbed the white mark while mentally calculating Chimey's attack force. He speculated that its driving force was probably around three kilograms.
Eastern · Amber Button
sublimation actually is the direct transition from solid phase to gaseous phase.
He had already heard of the incredible exclusive skill of the Moon Empress' Cold Moon Lone Disk. The Cold Moon Lone Disk's exclusive skill, Sublimation, was able to transform any substance into a fourth state apart from gaseous, liquid, or solid states. It would turn the substance into nothingness. After seeing it personally today, it was truly worthy of its reputation.
Eastern · Amber Button
it is extra nonsensical because Earth in this Novel expanded 100 times --> mass increases -->gravitational pull increases --> there wasn't any force in the skill, but made a dent in a Board of wood, that can actually withstand the gravitational pull? A wondrous skill indeed.
Lin Yuan rubbed the white mark while mentally calculating Chimey's attack force. He speculated that its driving force was probably around three kilograms.
Eastern · Amber Button
the rest of the money rotted away in a second?
Auntie Zhang quickly turned around and noticed that Lin Yuan had collapsed on the ground with the 25 dollars in his hand. His eyes were silently closed, and his face looked calm, as though he was sleeping.
Eastern · Amber Button
666m squared
[2] Mu (亩) is a unit of area that is often used in Chinese, equal to one-fifteenth of a hectare.
Eastern · Oof
he told him not to use mana crystals.
If I drank vitality potion during the creation of a seal, it will take very less mana from me and seal would also form early...
Fantasy · AnWan
See this! I just gifted the story: Lollipop
ch 94 How To deal with Rapists!
Sci-fi · sakakoi
Do you know the sentence "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
He planned to let them taste fear and then kill them. That's right to kill them. At first, he only planned to cripple them or something but now after watching all these videos and seeing those innocent girls crying, begging for forgiveness, he had decided that these scum didn't deserve to live thus sentencing them to death.
Sci-fi · sakakoi
I think you could reduce the repetitive phrases a bit. she called him... about cooperation or acquisition... specifics about cooperation or acquisition... and if you didn't know already - that's why she called!
She had received more than 2 dozen calls today and half of them were about the acquisition of the company and the other half were about cooperation.
Sci-fi · sakakoi
what makes you think you could produce and stabilize a big amount of antimatter? We're talking about particle physics here.
When he recalled the scene of the shuttle being bombarded by the single antimatter missile, Chu Nan felt a trace of fear.
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Sci-fi · Eight O'clock At Night