There's a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of

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• IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somewhere in the climax of Revelation Space (book by Alistair Reynolds), he describes the “suit” taking the character from the orbiting ship to the surface as “more of a spaceship with room for precisely one occupant”

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• Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It took me way too long to parse this sentence.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Me too. But I’m drunk. What’s your excuse?

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There's a fuzzy line between clothes and vehicles that spacesuits sit right in the middle of

      That's a fuzzy line between clothes
      and vehicles that sit right in the middle of

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you, son! I’m wearing a jacuzzi suit.”

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think Adam Savage has actually gone into this a bit on his YouTube channel, dude really likes space suits and have a lot of videos about them so I’m not even going to try to find which specific video it was

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• HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I would say, a space suit (Being a suit to protect a human agianst space), is clothing like, equipment, such the same as a suit of armour or CRBN suit. Where an EVA suit (Being a vehicle allowing mobilty in low/no gravity areas), is a vehicle like, mech suit, such the same as an exoskeleton.

  Yes we generally only use EVA suits in space

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do the Apollo era EVA suits count as vehicles, or do you have to have an MMU like what Bruce McCandless wore?

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    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The apollo era space suits (A7-L) where generally produced in an “EVA” configuration. It had protective, cooling and comfort layers but no mobilty enhancement. I would personally think they count more as a protective suit than a veichle, as compared to the MMU with mobility enhancing features.

      I personally consider the A7-L, not a proper EVA unit, it does not allow activity in space outside of a veichle or terrestrial body. An MMU veichle can be used to perform a wide range of activities outside the ISS wereas an IL-7, could not.

      ofc it’s all personal speculation and arguments can be made all around, thats just my take on it.

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