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Don't spacesuits typically have some umbilical connection to the capsule life support systems? It's easy to imagine that these connectors might not be standardi
by marssaxman 2y ago
Don't spacesuits typically have some umbilical connection to the capsule life support systems? It's easy to imagine that these connectors might not be standardized between different capsules, and that sending up a new space suit might be easier than designing an adapter.
- sitkack 2y ago927! We are literally building the future, HTF do we keep getting into these situations?
- yhvh 2y agoEfficiency
- marssaxman 2y agoWhat does "927" mean?
- fouronnes3 2y ago927 is a noun at this point to me. Hell so many xkcd could be: 1319, 936, 2347. It's crazy how often referencing a xkcd is the highest signal to noise way of communicating a concept.
- marssaxman 2y agoI guess that's a real S5:E2 experience.
- genewitch 2y agothere's a joke that goes something like A group of professors liked jokes, but got tired of hearing the same ones, so they started numbering them. So instead of telling a joke or funny observation when something happened, they'd say "112" and the others would laugh. or "64", more laughter. One day they get a new prof on their team and after a few weeks of this number, laugh, number, laugh, during a meeting, the new guy says "-149". There's dead silence for a while. The eldest prof starts laughing, "i've never heard that one!"
- ramses0 2y agoThe new guy thinks he's got the hang of it and says "112" at lunch the next day. Silence... "it's all in the delivery, man!"
- fragmede 2y agothose are good ones. 386, 303, 979, and 1053 also come to mind.
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoXKCD as a new (pattern) language you say? At least it's more pithy than "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra".
- userbinator 2y agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- bewaretheirs 2y agoEasy to imagine but there are so many details to nail down that it's hard to do in practice. In the words of someone in the industry who tends to be on the laconic side: "It is not as simple as a 'common connector'. There are different pressures, mixture ratios, comm gear, seat interfaces, etc. A requirement for commonality flows requirements upstream to the suit, seat and spacecraft. " https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60593.msg2618370#msg2618370 https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60593.msg2...
- marssaxman 2y agoI meant it the other way around - incompatibility is the easy-to-imagine default! In absence of some heavily-funded, top-down, NASA-driven standards-development process, no such thing as a standard spacesuit connection should be expected to exist.
- dylan604 2y agoSome where recently, I read something about this being an accepted thing. If you have 2 separate capsules that both use the same connector where there is a fault found with the connector, then both capsules are grounded because of the one connector.