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If I wear a suit designed such that I had an air supply, sufficient protection from cold, a filter system for external air and enough padding (and or other meas
by drakeandrews 14y ago
If I wear a suit designed such that I had an air supply, sufficient protection from cold, a filter system for external air and enough padding (and or other measures) to ensure I could survive a fall at not-insignificant speeds and impacts from other debris, would this qualify as tornado proof?
- dalke 14y agoIs it possible to do that and still call it "clothes"?
- drakeandrews 14y agoAre spacesuits clothes?
- dalke 14y agoSure. For one, even on Earth, astronauts are able to walk in them. Diving suits are also clothes. Even atmospheric diving suits, like the Exosuit from Nuytco Research, are clothes. So are the various efforts of Hurtubise, like the bear-proof armor suit and the Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor. I acknowledge that a powered exoskeleton can be a grey area, but I don't think a hypothetical tornado-proof suit would come anywhere close to this grey area. Here's vehicles which are meant to survive tornadoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle . How do you make that into clothing?
- drakeandrews 14y agoI think you're right in that by the point you've made a tornado proof suit, it is actually a vehicle.
- andrewflnr 14y agoIf it can survive being dropped from half a mile or having the end of a two-by-four strike it at 500 mph, and you can still call it clothing with a straight face, maybe. To say the least, I don't believe it exists today.