http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289661,00.html
Anyone else think this is looking familiar?
MIT developing slimmer spacesuit
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MIT developing slimmer spacesuit
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MIT develops the Normal Suit (They're calling it a "BioSuit").
Cool.
Cool.
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When I first saw that thing I couldn't help but think that Loran would look perfect wearing it.
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someone at MIT is a gundam fan, I can tell you that much. But what if it doesn't work? maybe they should send a bunch of MIT students to space so they can test it themselves.
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Since a few people see it as Gundam you aren't the only ones. A Japanese News Article on that directly mentions Gundam in the title. http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/ ... 0707181543 "Mobile Suit Gundam's Normal Suit Becomes Reality" or something to that effect.
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Fox is such a slooowpoke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3m.html
Scroll down a bit.
The concept itself has been around for decades; just google 'mechanical counter pressure'. NASA felt that materials with the required specs simply weren't available or cost-effective at the time.
Since it has to be skin-tight & form-fitting, it would be more the predecessor of the body-hugging pilot suits than the looser normal suits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3m.html
Scroll down a bit.
A glove using the mechanical counter-pressure principle had already been tested years ago by NASA in a vacuum chamber, and it worked just fine; definitely a marked improvement over the pressure suit gloves currently in use.But what if it doesn't work? maybe they should send a bunch of MIT students to space so they can test it themselves.
The concept itself has been around for decades; just google 'mechanical counter pressure'. NASA felt that materials with the required specs simply weren't available or cost-effective at the time.
Since it has to be skin-tight & form-fitting, it would be more the predecessor of the body-hugging pilot suits than the looser normal suits.