• Tylerdurdon
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    9 months ago

    Can you imagine being the forklift driver trying your damnedest not to blow yourself up by screwing up at work 1 time?

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      9 months ago

      I mean, the nice thing about screwing this up is that you’d be dead before you ever realized you screwed up.

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      9 months ago

      Without fuzes, which are only screwed in just before firing, modern artillery shells are really difficult to set off.

      If you think about it, the act of firing a shell out of a cannon and sending it miles away is pretty violent, but the shells don’t explode in the cannon.

      Without the correct fuzes, the shells won’t even explode when they land.

      https://www.quora.com/How-does-an-artillery-projectile-not-explode-and-destroy-the-artillery-that-fired-it

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        9 months ago

        That makes sense. I think I might still be a little unnerved.

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      9 months ago

      I would absolutely love it. Used to be an FLO and all I can say is carrying a stack of HE Shells would be stress free. Nobody rushing you or even being remotely discourteous. A team of escorts tackling anyone that even looks in the direction of my path, let alone attempts to walk in the way…