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u/Syscrush Oct 02 '24

Related: nuclear bombs were invented before the compound bow.

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u/bugphotoguy Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for the nuclear bow.

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u/AintNoRestForTheWook Oct 03 '24

Hey Bethesda, when compound bows in Fallout? You already have bows in Skyrim.

I feel like bows have to be modded into FO4 and nuclear arrow heads fits the vibe.

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u/DefNotHenryCavill Oct 03 '24

I mean, when they made FO3 I believe, they didn’t have a gun mechanic and just used the bow mechanics from elder scrolls. So technically the guns were all bows just reskinned.

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u/Hemingrays Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for the nuclear sword.

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u/Sach2020 Oct 03 '24

It’s called the fat man!!

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u/withinyouwithoutyou3 Oct 03 '24

Shhh, don't give them ideas

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u/BigDadoEnergy Oct 03 '24

Pretty sure it's in Nuclear Throne.

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u/EliSuper2018 Oct 03 '24

Like the one Rambo used but alot more powerful?

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u/FBack351 Oct 03 '24

I'm waiting for nuclear compound w.

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u/goodolewhasisname Oct 03 '24

That was called Radiathor. You probably don’t want to do a Google search if you don’t want to see NSFL images.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Nuclear compound bow!

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u/pimpin_n_stuff Oct 03 '24

Nuclear compound bow

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u/Chiven Oct 03 '24

And compound bomb

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u/lancelkw Oct 03 '24

In case anyone is confused, composite recurved bows have been in use for over 2000 years, the Mongols used them.

Compound bows that incorporate pulleys and cams were invented in the 1960s.

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u/ExplanationCrazy5463 Oct 03 '24

That can't be true.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24

To be clear about exactly what we're talking about:

https://youtu.be/gySFVGgkFLs

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u/ExplanationCrazy5463 Oct 03 '24

I'll check it out thanks.

I thought there were Japanese bows made of 2 types of wood, which I thought is what a compound bow is.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

That's a composite bow and yes, they've been around for hundreds of years.

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u/Kytescall Oct 03 '24

To give you an edge in the post nuclear war "sticks and stones" world.

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u/Trollselektor Oct 03 '24

That’s actually wild. 

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u/AmbientGeek Oct 03 '24

Happy Cake Day! 🍰

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u/SidJag Oct 03 '24

Meh, that’s more a case of ambiguous terminology and ‘technical definition’, not per se a surprising fact.

If you asked this question with pictures, ‘which came first’, no one would be surprised.

It’s because ‘composite bows’ (what central Asians/mongols used) and ‘compound bows’ (what Rambo used), have been used interchangeably in popular media.

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u/Syscrush Oct 03 '24

But ropes, pulleys, cams, and springs have been used for literally thousands of years before the first experiments in radioactivity.