Exosuit

[Axel Iehle <ai@augusta.cma.fr>]

Looking at the Exosuit presented at
http://www.nuytco.com/exosuit.html

I've been quite surprised to see that this stunning design presents a number of
characteristics that have been frequently associated with failure risk
in our discussions.
This includes non-circular connection of "viewport" (in this case the facial 
window) to pressure-hull, and non sperical or cylindrical pressure hull.

Concerning the pressure hull (OK, the Exosuit is far from looking like a sub, 
but it's actually what it is) I was wondering if the impact of the 
Galactica-looking segment shape, or of the almost-cubic (=flat sides) hand 
section, was lowered by the fact that the enclosed volumes are very small 
(more precisely: because of the high ratio of thickness over surface of 
material)?

Concerning the mask-window (how do you call this?) I have no clue why this 
design should be water-proofed! The only thing I can think to is that the 
window is in fact a portion of a sphere and does make a neat circular 
connection to the head pressure-hull, but all this is hidden by an outside 
cover (in the aim of protection or a more futuristic look?).

Does someone has ideas? Or could Phil give us some indications that would not 
be secret-pending-patents?

Regards,

Axel Iehle