• FiveMacs
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    193 months ago

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

    • snooggums
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      263 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.

      • @MissJinx
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        Most of the times my favorite approach is not to be a bomb expert. To this day it has not failed me yet

      • peopleproblems
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        43 months ago

        Remote detonation sounds much safer.

        EoD guys looked at all available military possible and said “nah I want one with real risk.”

      • FiveMacs
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        03 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.

          • @Soup
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            Removed by mod

                • @Klear
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                  33 months ago

                  You can’t tell me what to do!

              • @Soup
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                Removed by mod

          • FiveMacs
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            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.

        • @[email protected]
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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

    • @Illegalmexicant
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      53 months ago

      I would hope so, imagine trying to jerk…I mean, brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand. It just feels weird.

      • @lemmyman
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        33 months ago

        My mouse is on my dominant side so when I’m surfing porn I’m jerking non-dominant.

      • @ABCDE
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        13 months ago

        I switched somehow, it’s like someone else doing it.

        • @SpruceBringsteen
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          03 months ago

          Sit on that hand until it falls asleep before you go to town and it’s called The Stranger.

  • @Asifall
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    33 months ago

    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.

  • @MidsizedSedan
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    13 months ago

    With all the advancements in surgery robots and robot dogs, cant they put the 2 together for bomb dissarming bots?

    • @NeptuneOrbit
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      13 months ago

      Those exist. Maybe not owned by a certain task force.