Probably in the tv-series "Moon Machines - The spacesuit". The incident is shown there.
Yeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.
Quote from: mako88sb on June 10, 2015, 04:11:58 PMYeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.The ice sublimation system exploits the vacuum (as we know). Ralph Rene did not understand this, and neither did Blunder Wonder when he parroted Ralph.
Quote from: Luke Pemberton on June 21, 2015, 09:10:57 AMQuote from: mako88sb on June 10, 2015, 04:11:58 PMYeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.The ice sublimation system exploits the vacuum (as we know). Ralph Rene did not understand this, and neither did Blunder Wonder when he parroted Ralph.The classic logical fallacies of argument from disbelief (I find it difficult to understand, therefore it is not true) and argument from self belief (it it were true, then I would know about it. I don't know about it, therefore it must be false). I can't imagine how a person could have an ego so large that it would stop them from learning new things.
Did Rene understand anything? From what I have read and viewed it wasn't much in the way of engineering/science for sure. I can remember his rubber glove in the vacuum chamber. To a casual observer it looked plausible, but when you think about the 14.6 psi difference versus the 3.8 psi usage, it all falls apart as most(all?) of Rene's thoughts.
The Apollo astronauts did complain about tired hands, because the gloves were hard to flex.
Quote from: Allan F on August 01, 2015, 03:52:51 PMThe Apollo astronauts did complain about tired hands, because the gloves were hard to flex.Yes, especially A 17, but that was probably because the length of stay and work loads.
I wonder if spacesuits might want to take a cue from atmospheric diving suits and have the hands inside the spacesuit controlling basically short waldos.
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).