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β€’ Footage courtesy: Smithsonian Channel (@SmithsonianChannel) β€” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BpMf9869v4
Transcript
00:00Roman siege crews dodge flying metal as heavy scorpion bolt throwers snap their own levers.
00:05How did a weapon designed to conquer foreign empires turn its deadly force against its own operators?
00:12Common sense blames weak wood, but the actual disaster hides in extreme metal stress under heavy tension.
00:19Metal fatigue under extreme torsion repeatedly fractured iron release levers, unleashing stored spring tension violently backward.
00:27This lethal structural failure proved that Roman siege crews dodged flying metal.
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