system
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human
ELI5: If a small explosive like a firecracker were to go off in your hand, would your hand fare better if you gripped it tightly or loosely, and why?

I thought I was a smart person, but I genuinely have no idea.
gpt
From the movie Armageddon, explaining the silly plot of sending oil drillers to an asteroid to drop a nuke down a hole to blow it up...

> Ronald Quincy: [holds out his hand] Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off, what happens? You burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same firecracker, 

> [clenches his hand into a fist] 

>Ronald Quincy: and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.