Yeah, that's right! Screw those long hours of research in a dank dungeon lab, slaving away at your pathetic sample or impossible equations. Your army Kevlar helmet can actually do that for you. The directions are simple: just denote a C4 some 5 metres away from your helmet, and sooner or later you may earn a permanent head damage.
Some medical physicists have done simulations on just such a situation: the long-term effect of a shockwave from an explosion, and it's supposedly slated for publication in Physical Review Letters (and that's a top-tier physics journal if there was ever one). They found that the gap between the head and the helmet - designed to prevent the soldiers from getting saucepan-ed on the head should their helmets get rapped - allows the shockwave to sneak to the head and rattle the cranium out of shape. What happens then is that the soldier will suffer from traumatic brain injury when they return home.
The blast doesn't even have to be deadly; in fact, it is the non-lethal blasts that causes this. Of course, lethal blasts understandably leaves no options for long-term damage. So until the time when ST Engineering or Chartered Industries comes up with a groundbreaking and earth-shattering helmet (just like what the latter did for the o'-so-wonder-yet-so-heavy SAR 21), I suppose we'll have to improvise. So will it be old newspaper or toilet paper for you?
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