Its about being waterproof. You climb into the suit and you only have two openings. one for your face covered with a hat or secondary hood. the second one is in the chest covered by a rain jacket or poncho. most of the time you are hunched over forward protecting both the head and chest hole. Under heavier rain you can actively protect both openings as they are both within reach.
Its also a suit that a single person can get in and out of without any secondary help.
It’s so your alien chest burster doesn’t ruin your garment when it comes out. The work must continue, no stoppages, throw the next poor sap in the body bag.
They didn't have zippers. And, they didn't have elastic fabrics.
I don't think this was a good solution, because it's not common. It was a solution that worked, but perhaps not very well.
A better solution would have been as a corset is made. A corset expands to slip into, and then contracts with laces. That idea could have been adapted to the shoulder area. Alternatively, a seam at the shoulder that could fold over itself a couple of times and is held with buttons.
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 31 pts · 216d
Why does it have an opening on the belly?
Master@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 216d
Its about being waterproof. You climb into the suit and you only have two openings. one for your face covered with a hat or secondary hood. the second one is in the chest covered by a rain jacket or poncho. most of the time you are hunched over forward protecting both the head and chest hole. Under heavier rain you can actively protect both openings as they are both within reach.
Its also a suit that a single person can get in and out of without any secondary help.
Its a good system that looks weird as fuck.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 216d
I wonder what the waterproofing is? Given the time period, I'm assuming oiled canvas?
Edit: come to think of it, whale oil would be terribly convenient for this.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 216d
Having no knowledge of the subject I would also bet that the suit itself is made out of whale which are rumored to be waterproof
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 215d
You won't believe this but...
Nastybutler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 215d
You'd have to be brave or stupid to coat yourself in whale oil and wander out into polar bear hunting grounds.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 216d
For the arc reactor, obviously
mech@feddit.org · 13 pts · 215d
To get in.
Modern dry suits have zippers and a very elastic neck opening.
Back then they had neither.
MonkeyTown@midwest.social · 11 pts · 216d
It’s so your alien chest burster doesn’t ruin your garment when it comes out. The work must continue, no stoppages, throw the next poor sap in the body bag.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 215d
Whalers were really really big on belly rubs back then, they were willing to forgo a little breathing as long as they could get there belly rubs.
whitecollarcry@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 215d
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 215d
For Kuato.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 215d
Man that thing fucked me up when I was a kid. Hated every second of seen it.
I think it is based on Bill Keller, the psychic parasitic twin of young girl Edie Keller in PK Dicks' novel Dr Bloodmoney
Ryudos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 216d
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe that's where you get in from?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 216d
Basically how you get into a Sokol space suit.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 216d
So these suits were for the the historically accurate Whalers on the Moon.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 216d
Haven’t you seen total recall?
cram42@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 216d
The whalers were Jaffa, obviously.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 215d
For peeing
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 216d
So it doesn’t cover up the mouth.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
The technical term is a Brown Waffle
JackLSauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
X-men: Zeroth Class suit
Skanky@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 215d
Everything reminds me of her...
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 215d
We should call her...
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 216d
They didn't have zippers. And, they didn't have elastic fabrics.
I don't think this was a good solution, because it's not common. It was a solution that worked, but perhaps not very well.
A better solution would have been as a corset is made. A corset expands to slip into, and then contracts with laces. That idea could have been adapted to the shoulder area. Alternatively, a seam at the shoulder that could fold over itself a couple of times and is held with buttons.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 9 pts · 216d
pelya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 216d
You are the sausage now.
aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 216d
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 7 pts · 216d
thought it was Ironman mk .034
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 216d
Leatherman. A lesser-armored predecessor.
Trex202@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 216d
Tony Snark was able to build this in a cave, with a box of leather scraps!
PugJesus@piefed.social · 5 pts · 216d
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/21/arctic-review-ice-braving-hunters-fought-whales-british-museum
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 216d
Straight out of the Doctor Who costume department.