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Offline Cat Not Included

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Re: Johnson Space Center in-house newspaper
« Reply #30 on: August 05, 2015, 03:41:07 PM »
Atmospheric diving suits have the much bigger challenge since the pressure differences across them can be huge. Spacesuits only need withstand about 260 mb or so, and much simpler solutions are feasible (though not necessarily easy).
I've gone brain challenged, what does 260 mb mean?

I'm thinking in this contexts it refers to millibars.
Millibar: a unit of pressure frequently used in meteorology equal to one thousandth of a bar.
The quote "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" very clearly predates personal computers.

Offline grmcdorman

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Re: Johnson Space Center in-house newspaper
« Reply #31 on: August 05, 2015, 05:08:48 PM »
Millibars.

1 millibar = 100 pascals

mil·li·bar
ˈmiləˌbär/
noun
noun: millibar; plural noun: millibars

    one thousandth of a bar, the cgs unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to 100 pascals.

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