Hi jack,
Thanks for your response:
Modern day space suits have a power pack that provides the air circulation within the suit. In the early days of space travel there was no living outside of the space capsule and so the early suits wouldn't have needed to keep a man cool while traveling in space. The air conditioning of the capsule itself would do that. Further, the heat of the sun isn't that much hotter outside of the earth's atmosphere than it is inside the earth's atmosphere. Things aren't going to just burn up because they're outside of the earth's atmosphere because the heat generated by the sun is suddenly so much hotter. Our atmosphere doesn't actually cool the rays of the sun. What is hot, is when the space vehicle enters the earth's atmosphere and this is not because of the sun, but because of the friction created as the vehicle begins to interact with the molecules of our atmosphere.
Yes, if you stay in the rays of the sun's heat for an extended period of time, just as happens all over the world at the beach, you'll begin to cook. But space suits don't leave a lot of exposed skin to be cooked. The suit itself will begin to get hot just as a piece of material left out in the sun will today, but with inside air circulation and good insulation, the body inside won't feel it much.
Trust me, or don't, space suits work just fine and because of the materials with which they are constructed, they don't expand like a Sumo wrestler's suit. BTW last I checked all Sumo wrestlers wear is a crotch cloth, I have never seen a Sumo wrestler in some sort of suit. What you're likely referring to are those expanded suits that people walk around in that make them look like the Pillsbury dough boy, but you need to understand that those suits are designed and constructed to expand like that. They are built oversized so that when you fill them with air pressure, they expand. You can just as easily design a clothing suit that won't expand under pressure also.
But believe what you will. I would imagine the reason that no one has taken up the challenge that this man has set out is that all the rest of us understand that such a theory is disproven billions of times by automobile tires and if he's not smart enough to figure that out, then that's his problem. All anyone has to say to him is to look at an automobile tire. Rolling along with more pressure inside than outside and they aren't blowing up like balloons. Even if you put 100 psi in an automobile tire it will retain its shape within a couple of centimeters, but the ride will be very hard on your behind. If someone can't see that correlation, then there isn't much use trying to explain to him why a space suit doesn't expand like the Pillsbury dough boy.
You then responded:
That's right, but automobile tires prove everyday that you can have a greater pressure within a confined space than outside of that confined space and things don't all expand like the Pillsbury dough boy. I used the bursting balloon because that's how most people come to think that a space suit should expand just like a balloon does as it leaves the atmosphere, unless it has corded vulcanized material for its walls.
But look, believe what you will. NASA is doing a fine job with space exploration and I suppose its fortunate that they have wiser engineers that understand these things, it would appear, than you do.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
