Timeline for If you were wearing a bomb suit, would it be safe to set off a Claymore mine strapped to your chest?
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| Sep 22, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | Trioxidane | You can go the road of attrition. If the creature is in lesser numbers or has some amount of intelligence and fear you can 'win'. A creature attacks, both explode in a rain of mangled steel. One human and one creature down. Others might think twice to attack, or the creature's race will extinguish itself. Natural selection will only allow creatures that shun humans to survive. It is one reason why so many predators do not hunt humans. Most individuals get hunted if they do. | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 11:06 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | Downvoting for lack of research. | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 11:03 | answer | added | Niras | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 5, 2022 at 19:59 | vote | accept | KEY_ABRADE | ||
| Feb 19, 2022 at 7:03 | comment | added | Escaped Lunatic | Can someone please do a Mythbusters style experiment (yes, using a mannequin) and share the video? 😁 | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 18:02 | answer | added | Perkins | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 14:05 | comment | added | MichaelS | @VogonPoet: Life is literally always fatal, so no, it's not at all safe by your definition. Things in life have a chance to be the thing that ends you, but that doesn't make them unsafe by a reasonable definition. A gun is designed to kill. Wearing it on your person is very safe unless you do something stupid. A bomb, though designed to kill, could conceivably be safe with sufficient armor. The question's answer therefore requires actual knowledge of the explosives and armor in question, not just a general hand-waving that bombs are dangerous. | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 14:28 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @MichaelS Life is safe by my provided definition, to be sure. Life isn't designed to kill and maim; an anti-personnel device is designed to kill and maim. Strapping life to your chest is marginally different from strapping a thing engineered to shred your body to bits to your chest. Likewise, Life does not have warning labels from the manufacturer preventing your accidental atomization; the suit does have that label on it. "Safe" can not be said, in any context here. The question's answer is, "No." | |
| Feb 17, 2022 at 13:47 | comment | added | MichaelS | @VogonPoet: Life isn't "safe" by that definition. Just because it's always possible to have something go wrong doesn't make an activity dangerous in a meaningful way. And when you're comparing this to getting eaten by an invisible grue, it doesn't even have to be that safe. | |
| S Feb 17, 2022 at 2:03 | history | suggested | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2022 at 17:40 | answer | added | Nate | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 13:44 | comment | added | ceejayoz | @Goodies The explosion is the proposed defense against the dangerous and sneaky creature. | |
| Feb 16, 2022 at 8:54 | answer | added | AcePL | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 23:11 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | The question is very simple: Wearing a mine on your chest is not safe. Knowingly detonating a weapon while wearing a protective suit is not safe. The suit itself has warnings that can answer how much damage will be sustained, but it will not be “zero” The answer ios “no.” End. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 21:14 | comment | added | Goodies | I've an issue visualizing what happens "there's something exceptionally dangerous that's really good at hiding, and it's often capable of reaching point-blank range" .. and then it explodes.. you're talking about a silent drone with a bomb ? Some kind of robot weapon ? | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 18:48 | comment | added | David Rouse | @KEY_ABRADE - Agreed, and presumably the South Korean soldiers were aware of that. If the stakes are high enough and the soldiers dedicated enough, who knows what is possible? | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 17:28 | comment | added | KEY_ABRADE | @DavidRouse There's no way that wouldn't have killed them. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | David Rouse | Real World Example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_axe_murder_incident Quote: "Several of the commandos also had M18 Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge." There isn't a mention of them having any protection, but the incident was resolved without the use of the claymores. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 15:21 | comment | added | Daron | The only reason I can think to strap a mine to your dudes is if the mine is rigged to explode when the monster nabs them, and the explosion is round to make sure it hits the monster. But in that case they don't need to survive the blast. Then there are problems of collateral damage. There has got to be a better way. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 15:20 | comment | added | Daron | There has got to be a better way than giving all your dudes a bomb suit and a land-mine. It wont do any good if the monster nabs them before they see the monster. And if they do see the monster why not just give them a shotgun? | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 15:06 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 14:46 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | If they're at that level of technology, why not attach the claymore to a Robo-Dog and let it take perimeter duty? | |
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 10:02 | comment | added | Mazura | Public Safety Bomb Suit Standard-0117.01 - 1.25 pounds of center-detonated C4 in a cardboard tube held at arms length is 'safe', otherwise it doesn't meet the standard. Claymores have 1.5 pounds with metal all over the place and it's strapped to your chest. Do not expect to collect from the insurance company. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 6:44 | answer | added | Surprised Seagull | timeline score: 26 | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 5:55 | history | edited | KEY_ABRADE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 5:37 | answer | added | KerrAvon2055 | timeline score: 49 | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 4:44 | answer | added | Monty Wild♦ | timeline score: 7 | |
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 3:59 | comment | added | KEY_ABRADE | @sphennings Edited. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 3:58 | history | edited | KEY_ABRADE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 3:51 | comment | added | sphennings | As written this looks like a question about a real world scenario and not a question about building a fictional world. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 2:42 | history | asked | KEY_ABRADE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |