Comments on: The Super-Tight Spacesuits That Could Protect Astronauts’ Bones

By: Gartensauna

Gartensauna — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:56:18 +0000

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By: ChH

ChH — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:17:20 +0000

Jotaf, putting things in orbit is really hard.
Designing those things to be strong enough to hold together when spun (when they already have to contain a pressurized atmosphere) and spinning them once they are in orbit is trivial.

By: Jotaf

Jotaf — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:54:34 +0000

@6: Yeah, what’s so hard about rocket science? D’oh!

Good news article though :)

By: ChH

ChH — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:00:05 +0000

Or … they could spin the ship / station for easy artificial gravity. What’s so hard about that?

By: Suit man

Suit man — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:07:43 +0000

Compression suits will only work at enhancing performance in athletic events. Though it will be a worthy try. The tech to really make it work for something like mars is far beyond our tech level at present. First the suit would have to be worn all day, second the suit would have to have bio tech that feed off our bodies natural bacteria on the surface to keep bodily sores from developing. Third compression helps the muscles and ligaments for short periods of time and long durations within a suit with present tech would still cause all sorts of muscle problems for the wearer. NASA designed the laser swim suit that is much better at compression then the MIT one. Compression won’t save your bones from becoming weak it will only compact the muscle fibers and might prolong the loss of bone density. But then again maybe they just want only a 5% reduction.

NASA just needs more money to build a really new fast nuclear powered ship that can get us there in about a month instead of that ridiculous chemical rocket nonsense.

My reply to nick.
nick Says:
The human body was not designed to walk around with 2g of weight pressing in on it. Over time joints and bodies would fail. Mother nature designed us perfectly for our environment.

Trust me if you had ever worn a full body suit for any period of time, you would have realize how painful they are for athletic performance. Takes 30 minutes to put one on for a 1:00 to 3:00 race. afterwords you want to cut it off.

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:02:17 +0000

The ‘Nauts will look like Deiter from Sprockets! You better not have much flab going on.

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:56:49 +0000

Look on responses to previous articles on just this problem, you will see that I proposed a similar idea. You owe me money for my idea, NASA.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:56:16 +0000

And now we know why people in space movies always wear weird jumpsuits instead of jeans.

Yeah, but in most of those space movies they already have artificial gravity. Could it be a retro fashion from the time before artificial gravity?

By: nick

nick — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:43:02 +0000

And now we know why people in space movies always wear weird jumpsuits instead of jeans.

Also, does this remind anyone else of the Flab-o-dynamic suit that the Professor made Hermes wear in that limbo-olympics episode of Futurama?

Also also, would wearing one of these on earth all the time make you super strong, as if you were constantly subjected to 2gs of gravity? I bet athletes would be all over that.