Neat, and that's a pretty impressive computer voice!
..not sure if a 30 lb draw bow would have been of much use in combat.. but whatever.

he'll shoot your eye out... plus, i use poison arrows !

Yeah, what was it with the android talking?

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So being serious here with this question - was done with a speech synthesizer, and if so, anyone know which package was used? Or is it just some sort of accent (Norway?)? I ask because if it is a synthesizer, its awesome and I have been looking for a good one.

Am I the only one who thought the voiceover was annoying as hell? I couldn't watch the whole thing. I thought this video was sponsored by Anonymous for a moment.

69m is enough. Fast and accurate even in weird situations. Impressive!

Interesting video. Why didn't the press secretary of Anonymous who spoke the commentary for that video, mention the archer's name a few times more? I have forgotten it already. What was it again? Lars Ulrich? Wes Anderson? Homer Simpson?

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I believe that's the Anonymous spokesdroid.

Nope - no Scandinavian languages here - this is plain ol' fashioned annoying autotune and/or speech synthesis.

Was a comparable technique used at any time on the European field of battle?

If memory serves, archers used to open fire with a burst, then provide continuous fire to slow down the enemy and disrupt any tactical maneuvering

Repeated burst fire as shown in the video would consume lots of arrows, so it would only be feasible given a steady supply or a significant stockpile. And it would be physically tormenting with a bow of a high enough draw weight to achieve the neccessary a) range and b) armor penetration.

I always underestimate the physical prowess of our ancestors, but doing this with a 150+ lb bow -- that's some serious work.

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They had an interesting bit on sling shots on destins channel. The person with the current distance record has a quick draw style similar to this. It is theorized that drawing and holding to aim over extended periods of time causes energy loss via heat dissipating out before the shot is made. This means higher output of a sling shot (or bow presumably) without increases in the tension if fired before that heat leaves the tension device.

Most impressive.

Ancient text shows archers programming a VCR, correcting the time accurately within 1 minute. Others have said this was not possible. Here we have Lars Andersen doing it in 45 seconds, from 50m away.

He's faster than Legolas... lol.

i wonder if more people had know about this technique if anyone would have ever had time to come up with guns.

It's cool, just speed shooting some arrows indoors. We'll cover the repairs no problem.

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Amazing stuff.

0:12 "all known cultures have used archery as a weapon".

No. E.g. Australian aboriginals never used archery. I'm sure there are other examples.

Thanks @harlequinn, that immediately flagged my generalise-o-meter but I couldn't think of specific cultures that didn't.

I presume the voice is because they don't have a good English speaker, so they got a high-school level translation and fed it to a voice synthesizer.

Lars Andreson Lars Andreson Lars Anderson. We should count the Lars Andersons...

There's four more Lars Andersons now.

Five.

I wish they'd show his actual technique. They showed what it wasn't, but not what it was. I want close-up high-res slo-mo.

Lars Anderson??

spears and boomerangs are also projectiles.

Just change archery to projectiles and it's 100% correct.
They just didnt have bows yet...

Yes they are projectiles, so they are akin to an arrow. The big difference is that a bow has stored energy that is directed into the projectile (arrow). Spears and boomerangs do not - they are thrown.

They did have a device that gave mechanical advantage for spear throwing called a woomera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_(spear-thrower)

I guess we'll never know if they would have arrived at the bow.

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