I ate it. Hand on my heart and swear to God, I can only describe it as "astonishingly edible" - this picture of the final microwaved product notwithstanding
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![Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Fantastic
Creation
During an interview, Lee stated the inspiration behind the character's powers:
"I liked Plastic Man. That's a great power, and nobody is using it so I gave Reed Richards Plastic Man's power."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2pxxhwp2j3dybqa3mvyv6mwt/bafkreib7zaxpffl4k7hzzpnot6gif4ygazymr64navj53ajg7jd5hcbdp4)
![From a science.org article "Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet" ( https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet )
Excerpt reads:
To solve the mystery, Buckberry scoured the forensic and medical literature and searched through anatomical collections for equivalent injuries. “It looks like he was hit from behind by something traveling at a great velocity. The most similar cases I was finding were car crashes and people hit by trains,” Buckberry says. “But how do you get from there to a guy in medieval Scotland? What is large and moving very, very quickly in 1304 [C.E.]?”
Buckberry found the likeliest answer in history books. During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2pxxhwp2j3dybqa3mvyv6mwt/bafkreicgmd7aphwj5wfwm2d6soad3tkbp4v4szvdpku2op5bh42n6oweiy)
