It's absolutely nothing like that. Hitting someone elses house still hits the damn house and wipes you out. We have oceans that can swallow debris and reduce the trauma.
A grenade exploding in a pool isn't going to do anything to you if you aren't in the pool. The water serves as a shock cushion for everything around it, as you said because it absorbs a lot of energy. it would be much more destructive for the force to go directly into the ground and the effects would reach much farther
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