MIT to develop skin-tight space suit

[Infinity's End]

http://www.physorg.com/news103819761.html

I found this article interesting, as it pertains slightly to Metroid. Maybe we'll be seeing space suits much more akin to what our gal wears in the near future!

[MaiAriSquee]

FINALLY. They're right; what we've got now is too bulky. The "lines of non-extension" exoskeletal pieces sound like they'd make an interesting aesthetic. Sounds great.

[Jesse D]

Now they just need a cooler-looking helmet.

[Naner]

I hope that one of them is a Metroid player and decides to make a Power Suit-looking one.

[Valherran]

Looks streight out of the Gundam series IMO. But none the less, thats pretty cool, about time we got a new space suit!

[Calico_Jack]

Now all it needs is armor plating. Galactic Federation, here we come!

[Kenrai]

...If you think about it, this is also related to Star Trek...
we still need to find Metroids before the Federation exists!
(there is, according to Quantum Physics, an alternate reality where energy-sucking parasites are created a sa last attempt to save a planet, along with the universe)

[AMetroidGuy]

...If you think about it, this is also related to Star Trek...
we still need to find Metroids before the Federation exists!
(there is, according to Quantum Physics, an alternate reality where energy-sucking parasites are created a sa last attempt to save a planet, along with the universe)

Possibly. The many-worlds theory is just one interpretation, far from universally accepted.

[MaiAriSquee]

I find that theory to be totally wack, even if it does make for convenient plot device. I mean...every second, two-billion universes are born where I typed a J instead of a K etc. Or where a speck of dust landed two microns to the left or right or up and down etc. There is no MECHANISM to drive such a thing, no purpose. I think it's just a product of human speculation concerning cause and effect and what-ifs.

Perhaps I'm discussing the wrong theory...

And to stay on topic, yeah, I thought of Gundam too when I read that.

[AMetroidGuy]

I find that theory to be totally wack, even if it does make for convenient plot device. I mean...every second, two-billion universes are born where I typed a J instead of a K etc. Or where a speck of dust landed two microns to the left or right or up and down etc. There is no MECHANISM to drive such a thing, no purpose. I think it's just a product of human speculation concerning cause and effect and what-ifs.

Perhaps I'm discussing the wrong theory...

And to stay on topic, yeah, I thought of Gundam too when I read that.

No, that’s the one. I like for the allowance of infinite possibility. There doesn’t NEED to be a mechanism, not as you would understand it, because the process is goverend by the physics of a higher plane of existence.

[Jeff Aran]

Another cool advance in technology was the energy beam. I think they made this breakthrough a few years back. This beam carries energy and can be directed to a device in space, which would have a receiver to transfer the energy to the power pack or battery. Sounds like Solar Energy? but much more powerful.

Kinda like all those devices in the Prime games that would use an energy beam to power up some mechanism.

Also on that note: One of my MGS 2 guides has a section at the end that is dedicated to modern military technology that is really close to some of the technology that was in the game.

[Infinity's End]

back on topic, shall we?

I think if you take a look at several different forms of scifi media that feature space travel, a lot of them have skin-tight outfits that resemble this one. (2001: A Space Odyssey comes to mind) Holy carp, there's a Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacesuits_in_fiction
So really, it was just a matter of time before it became a reality. At least this one doesn't have a big bulky control panel on the chest, right?


I think the helmet looks really awesome. Even though Samus's helmet is cool looking, it considerably limits visibility in a real-life setting. So, it's good aesthetically, but overall completely impractical. This one should give the wearer full peripheral vision.

[MaiAriSquee]

I was thinking about the helmet thing when I was designing a character once, with a very narrow visor. One of the endings in Super Metroid gives me the idea that she doesn't actually SEE out of that most of the time- there's actually an expansive screen that shows what she'd normally see in real time, with different filters and HUDs and data, in front of her face. The visor is mostly for show. That would explain why it's so narrow in Super's art.

See here: http://mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sm/smend2.jpg

[Calico_Jack]

That's what I was thinking too. There's a visor right in front of her eyes that displays everything. The visor on the outside could be some sort of wide-range camera that can get a human's field of view without a lot of surface area.

[Jesse D]

http://mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sm/smend2.jpg

Huh, I never noticed until now, but notice how that headgear is completely absent in Prime? I say that it's absent because you can see her eyes behind the visor and there is clearly no additional eyewear. (Offtopic, I know, but still an interesting point.)