medievalpain
Condemned
Quoom himself would be shocked.
Interesting. since Quoom has graphically shown us many a slow and barbarous execution, I would have thought this would be right up his street.
Quoom himself would be shocked.
I'm pretty sure I've seen two by Quoom. One was of a woman impailed in front of a crowd on a very, very long pole (rediculously long, in my opinion) & the other was a woman lowered onto a barbed post. I don't have either of them saved, but if I find them elsewhere, I've post them.Interesting. since Quoom has graphically shown us many a slow and barbarous execution, I would have thought this would be right up his street.
Where I am, we only have about 12'20 between tides,and as the mean range is around 30'.I went to sleep thinking this through(it's one for Melissa!)Given the above, and the facts thatI (and presumably Margaret) would need to be tied to a stake to drown where the depth at high water is > 5'6",and the gradient of the shore in Wigtown Bay (being an estuary) is quite shallow, say 10%,(i) how far out on the shore, below the high-water mark, would the stake need to stand?(ii) if high tide were, say, at midday, at what time could I be taken out and tied to the stake?(iii) and how long would it be before I drowned?My very rough calculations, coupled with knowledge of the location, give the answers:(i) at least 500 yards(ii) about 4.00 p.m.(iii) a bit more than four hours
The lord's wizard has study the skies and the tides and had found that when the moon is full the tides are higher than when it its waxing or waning. The wizard also discovered when the moon is new the day's high tide as at it's peak and the night's tide is almost several cubits lower.
It is with this knowledge the offering to sea gods is planned...
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But it would only be the difference between drowning sooner than later...
...as our sacrificial women shall soon find out....
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...of course she has been smoking Madame Wu's cigarettes lately...
...that's what I thought...Of course! It's for this reason!
Where I am, we only have about 12'20 between tides,and as the mean range is around 30'.I went to sleep thinking this through(it's one for Melissa!)Given the above, and the facts thatI (and presumably Margaret) would need to be tied to a stake to drown where the depth at high water is > 5'6",and the gradient of the shore in Wigtown Bay (being an estuary) is quite shallow, say 10%,(i) how far out on the shore, below the high-water mark, would the stake need to stand?(ii) if high tide were, say, at midday, at what time could I be taken out and tied to the stake?(iii) and how long would it be before I drowned?My very rough calculations, coupled with knowledge of the location, give the answers:(i) at least 500 yards(ii) about 4.00 p.m.(iii) a bit more than four hours
I am puzzled as to how you arrived at your answers. If the gradient is constant at 10% then if you travel 500 yards (horizontally) then for every 10 yards your altitude would decrease by 1 yard. So for 500 yards your altitude would decrease by 50 yards. It doesn't make much difference if the 500 yards is measured along the slope of the beach. So, at a depth of 150 feet what are you looking for..the Titanic? Given that the depth of water v time graph would follow that of a sine curve what formula did you use to calculate the times?
Thanks Melissa - I've always had a blind spot for trigonometry, which I thought was needed to calculate where the stake should go, so (it being late at night after an unScottishly hot day!) I panicked. 500 yards did seem a bit far! Common sense should have told me 10x my height would suffice, i.e. about 18 yards.I am puzzled as to how you arrived at your answers. If the gradient is constant at 10% then if you travel 500 yards (horizontally) then for every 10 yards your altitude would decrease by 1 yard. So for 500 yards your altitude would decrease by 50 yards. It doesn't make much difference if the 500 yards is measured along the slope of the beach. So, at a depth of 150 feet what are you looking for..the Titanic? Given that the depth of water v time graph would follow that of a sine curve what formula did you use to calculate the times?
are you sure? and in what time?But it would only be the difference between drowning sooner than later...
...as our sacrificial women shall soon find out....
Tree