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@snottyotter
Where is your logic to say it'll do some good? Once you break the surface of a balloon it fails pretty badly and doesn't do any good at holding air, once you hit glass hard enough to break it, it's probably more dangerous with all the sharp shards flying about. I'm not saying this is how a helmet behaves but you could apply those mechanics to a helmet and say that past a certain point it would logically do you more harm. Unless you know the actual material properties and how they react, it's probably not worth trying to draw logical conclusions without proper testing.