Re: Space Tourist Spacesuits

From: Christopher (auem28REMOVE_at_REMOVEdsl.pipex.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:20:00 GMT

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:35:57 GMT, Joann Evans
<bondage@frontiernet.net> wrote:

>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...

Not so, a suit used in LEO wouldn't be used in Pluto orbit.

Christopher
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