On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:35:02 -0700, John Schilling
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>On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:59:30 +0100, Mike Williams
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>>Wasn't it Leonard Erickson who wrote:
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>>>Third, cheap pressure suit for any visitors she might haul up there.
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>>Definitely not. Space suits will never be cheap. You can't convert
>>something like a deep sea diving suit into a space suit because it will
>>end up like a suit-shaped balloon.
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>Why would you want to, when you can buy an actual used space suit for
>$10-20 thousand? And if you're skeptical about the used ones, Orbital
>Outfitters will sell you a new one for a reasonable price - they aren't
>saying how much, exactly, but I know some of their customers and they
>aren't *that* rich.
>
>Sure, NASA spends ten million or so per, but the only thing that really
>tells you is that the commercial price is going to be somewhere under a
>million, possibly very much under a million.
Now figure out how a teenger can afford one.
I rather expect that my two characters will start out with airtight
boxes to store stuff, then after a *lot* of work, come up with a way
to have a small pressurized space. (Think treehouse on the moon :-)
It may well have to wait until they can get help from others before
they can get a proper suit for the non-invulnerable one.
Though, given that character's power, all that's needed is something
that can be sealed quickly and sup****t life for a minute or two.
That'd do for an emergency.
After all, as soon as he detects the problem, "blip" ****t to a safe
location on earth.
But that does mean that the "suit" has to stay reasonably "people
shaped" even if it starfishes you. That way you don't risk puncturing
it or other problems.
Main reason for any of that is so he can take things to or from the
"base" without needing the other one along to provide life sup****t.
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