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    171 year ago

    Or maybe the puma is deaf now and can’t hear the scary booms any more because guns are extremely loud. I’ll never understand how soldiers got through WWI&II without modern hearing protection.

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        41 year ago

        What boggles my mind is that whoever invented the first firearm (or cannon, I guess) fired one shot and didn’t stop then and there to invent reliable, easy-to-use hearing protection before going back to firearms. A bicycle tube inflated to ~36psi blew up less than a foot from my ear once and I was stunned for a minute. It felt like I was about to throw up, and everything sounded extremely muffled for 5-10 minutes. Why would I ever want to do that again?