Space Activity Suits

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394748]

Have Space Activity Suits ever been tested tested? Has MIT's Bio-Suit ever been tested?

The idea of walking around the surface of Mars in little more than a skin tight suit, a space helmet, and a heavy jacket and pants sounds very interesting.

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394768]

>>6394748
Human dermis painfully swells when exposed to near vacuum. Modern space suits apply pressure by maintaining pressurized air across the entire human body, but such suits are bulky and greatly diminish mobility. The same pressure can alternatively be applied mechanically by wearing a very tight elastic suit. NASA considered the idea back in its glory days and the concept is used by fighter jet pilots to keep too much blood from flowing into the legs at high g's.

[Anonymous No.6394773]

shits gonna get sci fi for real now

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394789]

>>6394768
Mechanical pressure is hard to apply to around the the hands and feet so the current iteration MIT's Bio-Suit design employs a single layer skin tight suit and a pressurized helmet, set of gloves, and set of boots. The suit uses elastic bands to maintain mechanical pressure across the rest of the body, with the bands around joints being more elastic than the bands around the rest of the body to allow movement.

NASA's old multi-layer version of the suit additionally used an air bladder around the abdomen to allow easy breathing. Air would be forced from the bladder and into the helmet when inhaling and forced back into the bladder from the helmet when exhaling.

[Anonymous No.6394798]

that suit looks like it's straight off Golden Age scifi pulp novel cover! I heartily approve!

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394808]

>>6394789
MIT uses laser scanners to create digital models of individuals in order to tailor suits to the exact measurements of each wearer. So astronauts better not gain or lose too much weight on long missions. :P

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394815]

>>6394808
With such suits, humans may eventually walk the surface of Mars in little more than a skintight suit, a pressurized helmet, and a commercial heavy winter jacket and pants from Earth.

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6394821]

So, after a little searching, I have one remaining question. Has a Space Activity Suit ever been tested at low pressures or at near vacuum?

[Anonymous No.6394828]

>>6394815
>commercial heavy winter jacket and pants from Earth.

I hope that doesn't happen. we should design badass space clothes. It's our chance to reinvent fashion forever.

[Anonymous No.6394837]

when are we gonna have these?

[Anonymous No.6394845]

>>6394828

What's stopping us from designing badass Earth clothes?

[Anonymous No.6394854]

>>6394845
too much stuff already polluting the collective consciousness. With space clothes we would be able to start over

[Anonymous No.6394866]

>>6394837
Why waste so much metal?

[Anonymous No.6394876]

>>6394854
>too much stuff already polluting the collective consciousness.

I hope you realize the irony of that sentence given the pics you posted.

[Anonymous No.6394879]

>>6394876
well we have to start somewhere, why not honor sci fi?

just not jeans and coats

[Anonymous No.6394882]

>>6394879
>star wars
>sci fi

[Anonymous No.6394883]

>>6394882
What space clothes would you want?

[Anonymous No.6394885]

>>6394866
Look at the bright side.
>Space ninja zombies come
>STOMP STOMP STOMP

[Anonymous No.6394895]

>>6394883

something less wildly impractical than robes

[Anonymous No.6394905]

>>6394895
Don't you want to walk on the surface of mars like a Pagan of the Church of High Intelligence

[Anonymous No.6394922]

>>6394748
>Have Space Activity Suits ever been tested tested? Has MIT's Bio-Suit ever been tested?

Not sure how you can ask this: those suits are developed SPECIFICALLY by testing them constantly.
That what the development process is.

Maybe you mean 'applied' -- as in used in space?

[Anonymous No.6394926]

>>6394837
You are a fool for wanting them; these are crap designs made by people who don't understand the basic needs, and are drawing 'cool armor, dude!'

Stop assuming the 'science' in video games is real or desirable!

[Anonymous No.6396127]

>>6394926
>This guys face when we're attacked by giant machines

[Anonymous No.6396142]

>>6394837
>dead space
do you even vidya?

[Anonymous No.6396154]

That think looks like it was designed by a graphic designer, so no.

[Anonymous No.6396155]

How is that supposed to protect you from heat and windchill?

[Anonymous No.6396326]

>>6394926
Desirability is subjective, my friend.

[Anonymous No.6396406]

The "Combat Edge" flight ensemble currently used by the USAF and USN is probably the closest thing you'll find to an operational space activity suit right now. It's a set of actively-controlled pneumatic mechanical counterpressure garments, designed to counteract both the effects of high G-forces and low ambient pressures above 40,000' where oxygen masks alone are insufficient. Unfortunately, it's not a FULL pressure suit, and is only designed to operate up to the 1.2 PSI differential needed to reach the service ceiling of the F-22, but additional future growth is still a possibility.

[Anonymous No.6396622]

>>6394815

now tell me something I do not know

[Anonymous No.6396624]

>>6394905

you mean bathrobe

get a pink one with a playboy logo, makes you look like a wanna be rich person.

[Anonymous No.6396925]

>>6394883
I just want pants that don't pretend to be made for men while not actually being able to comfortably contain my junk.

[Anonymous No.6396967]

>>6396155
tubes of heated or chilled liquid ran through the material, I imagine.

[DaOP !QQq.zuIWho No.6397363]

>>6394922
I mean worn in a near vacuum.

[Anonymous No.6397430]

>>6396624
my dream is to walk on mars in what amounts to a high tech gimp suit and a bathrobe

[Anonymous No.6397456]

>>6394815
That machine looks like the Leonardo Device from the video game Syndicate.

[Anonymous No.6397525]

>>6394876
The range of clothes that is currently acceptable to wear is very narrow. Could use a shakeup.

>space toga .jpg

[Anonymous No.6397528]

>>6397430

gimp suit with anal plug underwear?

[Anonymous No.6397530]

>>6397528
It's for medical reasons.

[Anonymous No.6398123]

So how important really is it to compress the extremities? Can skin and vascular tissue alone provide the tensile strength and pressure needed to prevent embolism?

[Anonymous No.6398133]

>>6398123

nope

supposedly kittinger's hand had swollen to double its size

i don't think it's good for blood pressure.

[Anonymous No.6398355]

>>6396925
>Don space activity suit with poor compression in the groin region
>Enter a hard vacuum
>???
>Penis enlargement!!

[Anonymous No.6398454]

>>6398355

i'm gonna be absolutely honest with you: if my dick was any bigger I'd start having serious problems with that fact.

[Anonymous No.6398457]

>>6398454
You can't go and say a thing like that and then not post pics.

...For science, I mean.

[Anonymous No.6398464]

>>6398457
if sci was a red board I'd be happy to oblige

some kids in here can't handle the truths of the universe

[Anonymous No.6398485]

>>6398464
maybe image rehosting?

[Anonymous No.6398489]

>>6398464
cross post on /b/