If those are anti-tank mines then he should be just fine
Indeed, those are anti-tank mines, absolutely harmless to humans.
Weeell unless they’re in a vehicle…
What if you identify as a tank?
Well, unless you’re a big guy
Even better you mention you started it to someone “Oh isn’t bad how Cheese Goblin dies”
Probably the WORST spoiler I ever got was from the official Game of Thrones fb page! I was an episode or two behind and suddenly my fb feed had a post about [major character] dying in the season finale!
On a positive note, that incident inspired me to read the books in order to minimize future spoilers, so lemonade was made 🤷
When I was on reddit r/grimdank spoiled the madolorian for me. Why is a 40k subreddit spoiling a Star Wars series! The episode just came out like for a day.
Yeah, the spoiler for GoT was ON THE DAY of the episode. Like you could probably be almost completely caught up, log on fb before watching the newest episode and have it spoiled.
the walking dead had that happen by spoiling a major character death about 2 hours BEFORE it premiered
Same thing for me from a promoted link on Facebook from some magazine reviewing the show. Big episode happens, I don’t watch it that night because I’m busy but I’m planning to watch it the next night. Promoted headline: “Ten Ways [Character who was killed in that episode] Could Come Back From The Dead Next Season.” Aw, fuck me!
Sometimes I wish I had read a spoiler so bad that I lost all interest in continuing the show. The eventual disappointment I would have been saved from…
“My favorite character is X”
everyone grimaces and the conversation goes cold
Happened to me with a major TV show. SIL said “Oh, I didn’t know so-and-so is still alive.”
Can we agree that mines should deteriorate after a few years?
How to do that reliably though. One bad mine that doesn’t deteriorate might even be more dangerous since people don’t expect it.
It’s usually more difficult to make it not deteriorate tho?
The chance that it just doesn’t go off seems way higher to me, which would be negligible, since they aren’t used for precise strikes.
That’s just not how chemistry works.
Every bomb, grenade, or other munition will have some kind of explosive substance, which contains a large amount of chemical energy that is ordinarily released very quickly as kinetic energy and heat, in a big explosion. These weapons are designed to where the explosive is resilient against accidental or incidental detonation. So there are a ton of safeguards in place to prevent these things from blowing up unexpectedly.
The problem is that the energy contained within those chemical bonds is still always going to be there. And there’s not an easy way to gradually release that energy. That’s why unexploded ordnance is usually disposed of by blowing it up, in place, with an external explosion. The deterioration of the safeguards around accidental detonation makes the whole thing less safe, so the safest thing to do is to detonate it in place.
Even chemical batteries, which are designed for gradual release of the stored chemical energy, can sometimes overheat and cause a runaway reaction of a battery fire. Deterioration of the device is bad for controlling how that immense quantity of stored energy gets released.
So if you have a device that is hard to accidentally detonate, how will you make it so that the explosive degrades over time, without causing an explosion at an unexpected time?
Some condition that is triggered by it being burried in earth instead of being in a storehouse.
An agent that slowly reacts with oxygen/water, to make the trigger/reaction mass unusable or something? Or one that causes it to slowly release the chemical energy to the ground, after a while.
slowly release the chemical energy to the ground
In what form? Like a really hot rock that warms the earth around it for a few decades? That’s dangerous in itself, and, like my example about electrical batteries, susceptible to their own runaway reactions that cause fires or explosions.
Ok, bad idea. But making the trigger/reaction mass unusable?
That’s what I’m getting at in my first comment. Any explosive is inherently in a state of high stored chemical energy. That energy will want to come out somehow. And if it isn’t released, it will always stay there, ready to be released at any time.
It’s the equivalent to stacking a bunch of really heavy objects on really high shelves above where people walk. When that energy gets released, it’s going to be really destructive. And if that energy gets released in an unsupervised, unplanned way, people are gonna get hurt.
Yeah the thing is you cannot guarantee that all mines deactivate. Some will last longer than others and this will put a probability on ending someone’s life.
It won’t change how you would handle them, you need to treat them all as a risk, but it would reduce accidental detonation after the time limit. Like a kid running over one in 20 years time.
Still better than guaranteed to ending a civilians live 20 years after.
Some do?
Some mines are designed to have a time limit on them and become inactive after a set period of time.
However, other mines can remain active and dangerous for many years after the conflict has ended.
According my linked article:
US officials says the mines they send Ukraine will be “non-persistent”, meaning they have an internal mechanism to shorten the lifespan of the trigger.
The mines are designed to become inert after a set period of time ranging from as little as four hours to two weeks, officials said.
They say the mines use an electrical fuse that requires a battery, and the mine becomes inert when the battery runs out.
The US intends for Kyiv to use the anti-personnel mines in the eastern part of the country, US officials said, where Russian troops have made slow and steady progress against Ukrainian defensive lines.
Ukraine has also made assurances they will try to limit the risk to civilians.
They had a character in the anime Solo leveling like this recently and they was one day from retirement too lmao.
The white lotus.
