Not that he’s taking this personally at all!
Seriously, I love you @Stranger_On_A_Train. Your posts are always informative and often humorous as well. You represent the best of the SDMB.
In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn.
Wouldn’t Spock be wondering why there are so many Vulcanoids?
Everything else your post said makes sense–but I’m struggling with this. Is there a typo, or am I misunderstanding what you’re saying? I thought your helmet was supposed to be filled with air.
That was supposed to be “… slowly filling the helmet with coolant.”
Stranger
Everyone knows the Universal Translator is racist.
That makes so much more sense.
I think I once saw a movie where they employed biological organisms to regulate the systems on their spacecraft. E.g. using swarms of insects (in secure tubes, natch) to transfer heat from one part of the vessel to another.
Unrealistic as hell of course, but I did think that if an ant could act as temperature regulator, that really would be a cool ant.
Well played! Now if only they could engineer one that would cheer me up.
One to lift your feelings? Like a sort of buoy ant?
Two ants, and in the middle, I depress.
Those were light-years ahead of the ones they wore in “The Naked Time”:
Dollar Store shower curtains, these were!
As for the prevalence of humanoids throughout the Galaxy, this was discussed in at least two episodes of TOS: “Return to Tomorrow” and “The Paradise Syndrome.”
The best test of a planet’s atmosphere was in Flesh Gordon, where Flexi Jerkoff walked out of his spaceship, inhaled a lungful, and said “Good. There’s oxygen here.”
I especially like the way there is not actually a seal between the hood and the rest of the suit.
Stranger
Now I want to see this movie.
Yep. One can fly thru the asteroid belt, and you might see a couple of points of reflected light that indicate an asteroid . You will not have to be dodging them like crazy.
I think it was implied all those doo-dads woven into the suit generated some kind of protective force-field.
In the animated series, they didn’t even bother with suits—they just had force-fields.
Why do shuttlecraft always land in the middle of big rock formations?
They wouldn’t do that if Armstrong were piloting.
The BEM of the week has to hide somewhere!