• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Dudes hands are gone if they detonates. Do they really have giant bomb suits but no gloves?

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      2 months ago

      The suit is there to reduce fatalities and minimize injuries, not to avoid every poasible injury.

      Sometimes there are situations where touch and feel is critical, although my understanding is that the preferred approach today is remote detonation where even the suit is away from the likely blast radius.

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        2 months ago

        I totally get that, working previously in kitchens and being told to wear gloves…I never did because screw that

        I just assumed that dealing with bombs wouldn’t be a one-time incident scenario.

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            2 months ago

            In my REPLY, yes I’m comparing wearing gloves, to wearing gloves because they are identical after being explained that they both decrease your fine motor movements.

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          I mean when they’re defusing larger bombs the suit wouldn’t help at all, it’s literally do or die

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    I know someone who used to be a genius and apparently it was uncommon but not unheard of for someone to puncture a battery resulting in a violent fire that had to be put out by dumping a fuckload of sand onto it.

    So this isn’t that far off from working at a Genius Bar normally.