#Dead space helmets series#
And as for the weird series of lights on the chest. Those wires or tubes hanging off the back could snag on salvage. That huge bubble helmet would provide amazing visibility, but it also looks like it could be easily broken. Years after the destruction of Earth, Cale ends up working salvage on a space station, which seems like a risky job - we even see him get smacked with a huge section of a ship that’s being dismantled.īut although the armored suit superficially looks designed for this work, this one seems pretty dangerous. to death, but even I have to admit that its space suit is a bit wonky. Is a fictional space suit safe and wearable for its characters? Does it perform its task well? And does it realistically look like it could perform that task? With that in mind, here are some of the greatest and most cringeworthy depictions, arranged from worst to best. There’s no such thing as an “ideal” space suit, because you need specific features for different environments. But not everybody does their homework: for every fictional space suit that’s more than just a fancy costume, there’s one that’s impractical and nonsensical even in a fictional world. Heinlein’s novel Have Space Suit - Will Travel, to the latest Alien movie.
#Dead space helmets movie#
Unsurprisingly, science fiction writers, movie directors, and prop-makers also love space suits - you’ll find them everywhere from Robert A. Earlier this week, my colleague Loren Grush launched her new series Space Craft by seeing what wearing one is like. The reactions were out of this world.Space suits are cool - and complicated. The resulting mixture was misted into a jar with some aluminum foil (not for the smell, but to suggest a metallic, space-aginess) and presented to guests at the Space Party. Anise was the sharp acridness, and Iwas tempted to throw in some asafetida (which apparently draws its name from the fact that it smells like fetid ass) for the sulphur, but thought better of it at the last second. For the hot metal meatiness, I used Helichrysum flower, which is the smell of delicious ham bacon in floral form.
For the smokiness, I chose some birch tar, which is dry-distilled and has a deep campfire aroma. So, I set out to re-create the smell of space. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. It was more pronounced on fabrics than on metal or plastic surfaces." He concluded: it is hard to describe this smell it is definitely not the olfactory equivalent to describing the palette sensations of some new food as "tastes like chicken." The best description I can come up with is metallic a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. Then I noticed that this smell was on their suit, helmet, gloves, and tools. It must have come from the air ducts that re-pressed the compartment. Astronaut Thomas Jones said it "carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell…a little like gunpowder, sulfurous." Tony Antonelli, another space-walker, said space "definitely has a smell that's different than anything else." A gentleman named Don Pettit was a bit more verbose on the topic: "Each time, when I repressed the airlock, opened the hatch and welcomed two tired workers inside, a peculiar odor tickled my olfactory senses," Pettit recalled. There are several theories about what causes the smell, from the equipment operating the air-lock, to interactions between space particles and space suits, but it’s a lot cooler if you think of it as THE SMELL OF OUTER SPACE.įolks have said space smells like hot metal and seared meats. As it turns out, several of the astronauts that have gone space-walking have reported a distinct odor at exactly this moment. So what is the closest you can get to actually smelling space without being horribly killed? Probably it is on the return from a space walk, in the first instants after entering the shuttle air-lock, re-pressurizing, and removing your helmet. That’s exactly what Sfumato did for the Detroit Space Party at the Michigan Science Center. The air in your lungs would expand violently, all the spit would evaporate out of your mouth, and then your blood would boil, so let me say it here: DON’T GO TRYING TO SMELL OUTER SPACE IN ACTUAL OUTER SPACE!!! Rather, wait for someone to re-create the smell and bring it to you here on earth. Since space is mostly a vacuum, a) there aren’t many molecules to smell, and b) the various fluids in your body would quickly equilibrate with the environment. Ok, well technically if you tried to smell outer space by going into outer space, then taking off the helmet of your spacesuit, things would go south for you pretty quickly.