Rocket Artillery (TL 4)

[DanHoward]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

They did. It took them _days_.

How is that relevant? They used modern fuses which are far far superior to anything that the Koreans had in the 1500s. They used modern black powder which is manufactured and tested using stringent safety and quality control procedures using modern electronic equipment and modern scientific knowledge. No way would a Korean rocket have performed as reliably as anything the Mythbusters used on that show. Not even the rockets that the British experimented with in India 250 years later would have performed as reliably. The failure rate of a primitive rocket is way higher than Mythbusters would let you believe. It would be impossible to cram that many together into the contraption that Mythbusters used. The chance of at least one of them exploding is virtually guaranteed.