system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why can't you just remove the wires from a bomb in order to disarm it?
gpt
Some bombs instead of being signaled to go off are instead constantly being told not to go off.  If you remove that signal then they explode.  This is how the abort explosives on rockets work.  They are constantly receiving a signal from the ground saying please don't blow up.  That way if ground control ever loses control of the rocket it automatically explodes and doesn't plow into some random city.