Why no visors on the suits?

[garhkal]

You would think suits designed for working in space, would have some sort of "Visor" or Shaded glass in the eye piece area for when working in space/around bright lights.. Would that have helped out Parks?

[s09119]

You would think suits designed for working in space, would have some sort of "Visor" or Shaded glass in the eye piece area for when working in space/around bright lights.. Would that have helped out Parks?

It's possible they have some sort of light filter... but she was staring into a blue supergiant. As they dived inside of it. I don't think that's something you can just filter out.

[Gollumpus]

I suspect that it is something she would look into later...

regards,
G.

[erotavlas]

You would think suits designed for working in space, would have some sort of "Visor" or Shaded glass in the eye piece area for when working in space/around bright lights.. Would that have helped out Parks?

I was thinking the same thing, the only explanation I can think of is that the suits do have some sort of eye protection like visors but Park was just unable to access the control to activate it, or manually lower it since she was too busy holding on for her life.

[Gollumpus]

I was thinking the same thing, the only explanation I can think of is that the suits do have some sort of eye protection like visors but Park was just unable to access the control to activate it, or manually lower it since she was too busy holding on for her life.

Well, she is a self-admitted "expert" on those suits, so if she forgot about a visor then that would be silly. And the Ancients being the Ancients, I'm thinking there'd be some kind of automatic filter which would activate, if no manual visor.

I'm going with the situation being too much for the design specs of the equipment.

regards,
G.

[LordRush]

Maybe she panicked when the dome was breached? I mean put yourself in her shoes, she was under a lot of stress you can see that in her face when she was submerged in the water and the water started to boil, then the dome was breached and venting atmo she was hysterical trying to hang on for dear life, she didnt think fast enough to activate the visor. She thought she was gonna get cooked, visor was the least of her worries. Hopefully will find out next episode.

[Shylodog]

I suspect that it is something she would look into later...

regards,
G.

Pun intended?

[Gollumpus]

Maybe she panicked when the dome was breached? I mean put yourself in her shoes, she was under a lot of stress you can see that in her face when she was submerged in the water and the water started to boil, then the dome was breached and venting atmo she was hysterical trying to hang on for dear life, she didnt think fast enough to activate the visor. Hopefully will find out next episode.

Well, she was in control of herself to remember to mag her boots to the side of the water tank, so I think putting down a visor would have been something pretty obvious for her to do. And her hands were free to use. It was the mag boots her in place.

Your comment about the look on her face is perhaps the real answer here. If there was a visor, we could not see her face at that crucial moment.

regards,
G.

[Gollumpus]

Pun intended?

What, a pun from me? NEVER!

regards,
G.

[thekillman]

i presume there is a small visor shield for filtering. but i believe that Destiny was unable to filter all EM, so why would her visor be capable of it?

[ZoSo]

Like I said in the general discussion thread, these suits may just be intended for deep space work only. Destiny only ever comes close to a star when it is recharging and that's usually not a good time for a spacewalk.

[blazingfire]

Like I said in the general discussion thread, these suits may just be intended for deep space work only. Destiny only ever comes close to a star when it is recharging and that's usually not a good time for a spacewalk.

But what about situations that involve emergency space walks close to the sun? All possible contingencies should be covered, I'd say.

[Gollumpus]

But what about situations that involve emergency space walks close to the sun? All possible contingencies should be covered, I'd say.

Meh, they'd probably do them at night...

regards,
G.

[Pharaoh Atem]

The sga model has a visor so maybe the crew hasn't figured out how to turn it on

[eonflux]

It was the light that blinded her. Not EM or other radiation. If that was the case she would have been cooked alive. Ever sat in a car sitting in the sun?