Re: Space Tourist Spacesuits

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:35:57 GMT

Rand Simberg wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:10:12 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
> Lowther <scottlowther@ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com> made the phosphor on my
> monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> >>It's like the difference between viewing underwater through a
> >>submarine window, and a diver's mask.
> >>
> >How many divers masks at the bottom of the ocean? RIght now both deep
> >sea and in-space are rather nasty places to be, yet people would pay to
> >be there even if they are separated from the environment by a window.
>
> Yes, but if they could, they'd pay even more to view it up close and
> personal. And the environment of space is nowhere near as "nasty" as
> ocean depths, in terms of design requirements.

   Indeed. And some things need only one solution. Granted there are
issues of heat dissapation, traction and dust (on some planetary
surfaces), etc. But you don't have to engineer for different pressure
requirements (again, excepting certain planetary surfaces) no matter how
much 'deeper' you go in space.

   IOW, vacuum is vacuum wherever you are, and once you have a suit
that's flexible and comfortable in LEO, you're good for most of the rest
of the Universe... 

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