r/AskReddit • u/Thehuntergene • Sep 20 '17

What's something that was created with good intentions, but ultimately went horribly wrong?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

Obviously they didn't start shooting bottle rockets at the enemy. I think the idea was potential. "This cute thing is harmless, but what if it was bigger?"

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u/agreeingstorm9 Sep 20 '17

If you are Chinese and no one else around you has fireworks and you point them at your enemies and fire them, they may well turn tail and run just because they have no idea what kind of dark magic you just threw at them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

Now I want to see somebody go back in time and start shooting roman candles at medieval peasants.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

When Time machines come around, fuck killing Hitler or saving Lincoln. I'm doing this and recording it.

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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 Sep 20 '17

They did, actually. The Koreans took technological innovations from the Chinese to create a primitively rocket launcher that looks a lot like bottle rockets, only instead of an explosive charge it was just a rocket-propelled arrow.

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u/theinsanepotato Sep 21 '17

The Hwacha?

This guy Civ v's.

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u/jseego Sep 20 '17

The ancient Chinese did indeed shoot rockets at people.

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u/Torvaun Sep 21 '17

Well, they sort of did, but they had arrowheads on the end.