The "horrible thing" is fingernail loss, which mostly occurs after a prolonged spacewalk. It occurs more often in poorly-fitted gloves and in women, but can occur in well-fitted gloves and in men.
Those are basically all of the facts in the article.
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I was expecting it to be a lot more exciting than something that also happens to your toes on earth if you do too much long distance running.
Yikes.
It seems to me our bodies are just not able to handle such thin proximity to the vacuum dependably, at least with current materials. This makes a great case for building dexterous proxy robots that astronauts or even someone on the ground depending on latency controls. Wouldn't need to be much more than a propellant based drone with human like arms on the side, a panoramic camera out of the top, and some form of tether. That and a headset and motion capture apparatus inside.
It's not like they'd lose a whole lot of dexterity and feeling, since their suits already limit those in person. With practice, wouldn't having realtime proxy hands like this:
Provide more or at worst roughly equivalent dexterity than operating through the current space mittens, and with less risk?
Reminds me of the old timey deep dive suits which had mechanical hands the "pilot" had to manipulate because the suit was too thick to use their hands
You just made me remember when I was I kid and at some museum they had a bunch of dive suits you could reach in and operate the mechanisms for the gripper hands. It was really cool.
That's exactly what I was thinking of actually lol
You mean an atmospheric diving suit. The most recently developed one by the US Navy cost a mere $113 million.
Sounds like a design challenge. Probably an exoskeleton power assist to the fingers.
I thought about sports tape
To me it reads like it's circulation and abrasion problems from trying to force the inflated gloves to move.