It's not just you.
Consider it one of the hold-overs in fanservice from the original.
If it helps, here's some interesting info: In the original series, crewmen doing EVA and space fighter Pilots were portrayed as wearing distinctive spacesuits. But as of the Comet Empire (Movie and TV series 2) an interesting thing happened. The basic uniforms were portrayed as short-duration spacesuits on their own. You just donned gloves, boots, and helmet and sealed it.
Yuki didn't even have to don boots. Just the gloves and helmet.
Of course this was never explained outright. But there was some fan-spec both here and in Japan on it. We (fans) assumed that the helmet had a short duration air supply and recycle system built in. And that the grey gloves and boots were adhesive or electrostatic-ally bonded etc. to the basic uniform - which itself was supposed to have enough layers/insulation etc. to serve as a spacesuit.
The original male uniform was - other than the bell-bottom pants and sleeve-cuffs, pretty tight-fitting. So it didn't seem too much of a stretch to assume that the knee-high boots and elbow length gloves would secure those problem areas. And the female uniform had even less problems than that!
Any arguments that this was unrealistic were a bit hard to make in light of all the other things about the show that didn't exactly adhere to hard science.
"Hey! It's THE FUTURE! Advanced materials! They have anti-gravity! It's
a BATTLESHIP IN SPACE... you're going to argue about the spacesuits?"
The main thing with a space suit in terms of pressure is that it has to keep the human body from expanding in vacuum. Modern space and pressure suits do this via by pressurizing the the body with the breathing gas itself. Which means modern era space suits are pretty bulky.
Ironically, a skin-tight spacesuit is even now in the works! Has been for a few years actually. As it says in the article:
All of which - I KNOW - utterly fails to explain the disparity of the uniforms.
But I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
-Logan
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...And run my lecherous ass off in the other direction.
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Consider it one of the hold-overs in fanservice from the original.
If it helps, here's some interesting info: In the original series, crewmen doing EVA and space fighter Pilots were portrayed as wearing distinctive spacesuits. But as of the Comet Empire (Movie and TV series 2) an interesting thing happened. The basic uniforms were portrayed as short-duration spacesuits on their own. You just donned gloves, boots, and helmet and sealed it.
Yuki didn't even have to don boots. Just the gloves and helmet.
Of course this was never explained outright. But there was some fan-spec both here and in Japan on it. We (fans) assumed that the helmet had a short duration air supply and recycle system built in. And that the grey gloves and boots were adhesive or electrostatic-ally bonded etc. to the basic uniform - which itself was supposed to have enough layers/insulation etc. to serve as a spacesuit.
The original male uniform was - other than the bell-bottom pants and sleeve-cuffs, pretty tight-fitting. So it didn't seem too much of a stretch to assume that the knee-high boots and elbow length gloves would secure those problem areas. And the female uniform had even less problems than that!
Any arguments that this was unrealistic were a bit hard to make in light of all the other things about the show that didn't exactly adhere to hard science.
"Hey! It's THE FUTURE! Advanced materials! They have anti-gravity! It's
a BATTLESHIP IN SPACE... you're going to argue about the spacesuits?"
The main thing with a space suit in terms of pressure is that it has to keep the human body from expanding in vacuum. Modern space and pressure suits do this via by pressurizing the the body with the breathing gas itself. Which means modern era space suits are pretty bulky.
Ironically, a skin-tight spacesuit is even now in the works! Has been for a few years actually. As it says in the article:
Quote:"A space suit is almost a spacecraft in itself - it provides life
support, pressurization, thermal control, micrometeorite protection and
other functions necessary to keep the astronaut alive," says Liang Sim, a
researcher in the MVL. "Current spacesuits pressurize the body using
the breathing gas inside the suit, which limits mobility, complicates
functions such as temperature control and moisture removal, and carries
the risk of a catastrophic failure in the event of puncture."
The suit being developed by MIT and Midé, by contrast, would use a
skin-tight weave of controllable materials to maintain surface pressure.
Additional layers could then be added to perform other functions such
as radiation protections and temperature control. This could provide
more mobility and comfort, increase safety, and lower cost.
“Building a skin-like layer that maintains pressure mechanically
allows you to create additional layers that can be donned more like
clothing, quickly replaced or repaired.” Says former astronaut and
Principle Investigator on the MIT portion of the grant, Jeffrey Hoffman.
“This has the potential to revolutionize operations.”
All of which - I KNOW - utterly fails to explain the disparity of the uniforms.
But I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.
-Logan
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...And run my lecherous ass off in the other direction.
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