Comments on: Spacesuit adjusts for gravity, or lack thereof http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 08:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: DouglasLucchetti http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197414 DouglasLucchetti Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197414 What ever happened to the idea of simulating gravity by rotating those stations that would require long term living environments...oh, yeah...we never got to that as we fell into the NASA/DoD belief that rockets had to be made to function like self-disintegrating swiss-watches the size of corn silos, costing billions, which we'd send up by the dozen instead of appropriately large scaled rockets made economiically at ship-yards, of durable and heavy duty materials intended to be re-used or incorporated into axially rotating space stations, and filled with cheap and easily handled propellants and launched from equatorial oceanic locations and requiring only one or two a year to provide our space station with enough fuel and cargo to last...oh, yeah.  What ever happened to the idea of simulating gravity by rotating those stations that would require long term living environments…oh, yeah…we never got to that as we fell into the NASA/DoD belief that rockets had to be made to function like self-disintegrating swiss-watches the size of corn silos, costing billions, which we’d send up by the dozen instead of appropriately large scaled rockets made economiically at ship-yards, of durable and heavy duty materials intended to be re-used or incorporated into axially rotating space stations, and filled with cheap and easily handled propellants and launched from equatorial oceanic locations and requiring only one or two a year to provide our space station with enough fuel and cargo to last…oh, yeah. 

]]> By: pjcamp http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197214 pjcamp Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197214 "No, young Luke. BE the Segway, you will." “No, young Luke. BE the Segway, you will.”

]]> By: William http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197172 William Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1197172 Look at all those built-in iPods! Look at all those built-in iPods!

]]> By: Finnagain http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196872 Finnagain Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196872 Build in some electro pain compliance, and now you're talking! as well as the elderly population, as they relearn the proper way to execute common movements by introducing strong resistance when they do not take the proper path. Build in some electro pain compliance, and now you’re talking!

as well as the elderly population, as they relearn the proper way to execute common movements by introducing strong resistance when they do not take the proper path.

]]> By: Jerril http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196868 Jerril Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196868 Concept art by Poser's sketch mode and DAZ's Michael 4. Nice. Concept art by Poser’s sketch mode and DAZ’s Michael 4. Nice.

]]> By: Sparrow http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196614 Sparrow Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196614 The time and motion studies people would probably love this, they could force employees to follow the authorized processes exactly by making it more difficult if you get off track. The time and motion studies people would probably love this, they could force employees to follow the authorized processes exactly by making it more difficult if you get off track.

]]> By: Joe F http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196575 Joe F Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/23/spacesuit-adjusts-for-gravity-or-lack-thereof.html#comment-1196575 Wait... Why does NASA need spacesuits anymore? How well does Russian money exchange into American? Wait… Why does NASA need spacesuits anymore?
How well does Russian money exchange into American?

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