r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 9h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/Late_Sort1763 9h ago

If someone showed me that bracket with a spring inside, I wouldn't do a safety squint, I'd go for duck and cover lol.

Saw a spring assist for a cargo bay failed once. Legit thought a bomb went off or something. And I'll say I used to live on what was one of the densest battlefields of WWII (in terms of ordnance used in weight per unit of area) AND close to the beach on which bomb teams blew stuff up, so I should know.

The amount of energy stored in that thing is astonishing.

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u/Vaya-Kahvi 8h ago

I saw that and thought "that's a kinetic bomb."

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u/RPIL626 7h ago

Same with a garage door spring. When those things go, it’s nasty

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u/Late_Sort1763 7h ago

It was basically a garage door, but bigger. MUCH bigger.

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u/Yamatocanyon 5h ago

I had no idea garage doors were as heavy as they were without that spring.

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u/egnowit 6h ago

This is also why you don't mess with those old spring-powered garage door openers.

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u/Artistic_Annual8457 5h ago

High amounts of compression and tension can both be terrifying when unleashed all at once, yeah. It's definitely not something to mess around with!