Forst of all, right at the very beginning, you see his round door open. Does anyone see any runners? What was it attached to?
Just a simple one to start with.
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I have no idea what the hatch was connected to. It looks like a pressure hatch to me. There are other examples pictured on the internet. Surely your not basing your arguments here on hinges of a door not shown on a video?
No, no, I'm not basing any argument on a hatch. I am asking questions and evaluating the answers, that's all.
Ok so it could be a pressure hatch, as in, the internal pressure seals the hatch , right?
Ok, I'll accept that for now.
Next question:
At the very start 0:00 you notice his suit is not pressurised at all, despite the de-pressurisation of the capsule. How can this be?
I don't know why you think the suit was not pressurized. It was and you can hear them reference that while going over the check list.
Is there a way that you can tell if the suit is pressurized that I cannot?
Yeah, the creases give it away quite easily.
Let me just explain something. Remember when we talked about the helium balloon expanding the higher it got?
The reason for that is because as it sets off, the lighter helium, or expanded helium, is easily squeezed by the dense atmosphere, so it's easier to push up or squeeze up.
It's like holding wet soap and trying to grip it in the bath. The soap gets pushed up by your hand grip because your hand grip can't hold onto it.
As the balloon gets pushed up a bit further, the atmosphere pushing it, gets weaker, meaning the helium can actually expand more inside the balloon. This creates a wider area of balloon, meaning it's always going to be pushed up as long as it expands. The higher it goes into the lighter elements, the more the helium inside can expand again against that weaker force acting against it.
If the balloons elasticity is stretched to its limit, the balloon will pop. If its elasticity can hold out...the balloon could get to the stage where it hits a point where it cannot go any higher as it would become equal with the pressure outside of it, so would float for want of a term, because it cannot fall back, just like an air balloon can't fall under water. It will just float on top. Same kind of thing.
Ok, now that's out of the way...let's deal with Baumgartners suit.
In his pressurised container, his suit wouldn't need to be pressurised as his body can't expand against that pressure that is upon him inside the capsule.
As soon as that capsule is de-pressurised, his suit must be pressurised in unison as that capsule de-pressurises, or he's dead.
His suit would have to inflate to stop his body cells expanding to fit the suit. You see, the pressure in the suit would be enough to hold back his body from inflating and the suit holds the pressure, so everything is fine.
If that suit is not pressurised his body must equalise the environment it finds itself in, which naturally will be the elasticirty of that suit. Basically he would swell up to fill it but be dead before he even got close to that.
This is undeniable and you people, should know this.
The opposite would happen to a deep sea diver.
You pressurise a diving suit to cope with the water pressure tyou find yourself under. As you moe down, you up the pressure to repel the crush.
If you de-pressurised that diving suit when at a depth, your body cells would immediately start to be compressed and squeezed up through the weakest part of that suit which would be your soft torso or your guts, which would be pushed through your head and out of any orifice you have.
These are facts.