10-10-2016, 01:17 AM | #11 |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
That is true of contemporary drysuits too, but the purpose of using a drysuit instead of a wetsuit is that drysuits allow divers to operate at colder temperatures. They don't have anything to do with pressure.
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10-10-2016, 01:38 AM | #12 |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
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10-10-2016, 01:44 AM | #13 |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
It seems to be fine under some level of water, which exerts uniform pressure. Conversely, it tends to get damaged extremely easily when poked with a finger or a rather blunt chokpstick (surely chopsticks don't count as cutting/impaling!). Plus let us not forget that the air alone exerts a pressure of FOURTEEN POUNDS per each square inch of surface area. A finger or chopstick poke seems to be less than that.
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10-10-2016, 03:22 AM | #14 | |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
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Armor offering pressure support means it can sustain a pressure differential.
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
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3rd edition Gurps Blue Planet covers many of them. Because of those rules I consider it one of my most useful 3rd books that apply to 4th ed. games.
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10-10-2016, 03:34 AM | #17 | |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
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Which is why you want actual pressure support sometimes.
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10-10-2016, 03:49 AM | #19 |
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Re: Cybersuit -- Submersible or Not?
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Regardless of that, what I'm actually saying is that wearing a deep-water fish (or a hard-boiled egg) won't provide you with any pressure support benefits. Having Pressure Support doesn't really require structural strength, but for equipment to provide Pressure Support very much does.
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