archont said:
Think of it this way: your skull provides ample protection from a boxing glove. The bone doesn't get pierced or cracked - apart from a broken nose or cut skin. Despite that people get knocked out. Same goes for car accidents. Your skin may not be pierced at all but the sudden deceleration may and often does result in internal hemorrhaging.
I suggest you go ahead and experiment with this idea a bit. Get yourself a suit of medieval armor and go bungie-jumping on a static rope
I do not need to do anything as obviously dangerous as that, just slap a wall and you'll note the sides of your hands get sore, even though they never touched the wall themselves they were exposed to the hydraulic pressure of your body fluids transmitting force to them, the sort of thing that will not happen if you are in the cockpit of a vehicle, because you are not directly connected to it and it has a tendency to send impact forces through it's chassis because they are more solid and more quickly follow newton's law regarding opposing forces, the same way that if you put your finger between the balls of a newton's cradle, you will tend to absorb the energy because your finger will deform and absorb the impact
if you contain that ability to deform the blood will simply be squeezed out of your finger and if you do that at high speed the pressure will rupture the small blood vessels whilst pressure suits and skin tight leathers do provide protection, they do not make you resistant to damage and will still transmit the forces into you, and the only way out will be your lungs / mouth and that's a bad place for your blood to end up, particularly under force
what they are really good for however is preventing your blood from pooling under g-forces, but they provide little protection to the crushing and torsional damage you would receive from impacting objects, which is why you need a solid skin to distribute the force over a larger area
you need, mass, resistance, padding to protect yourself from all harm you can do that with crumple-zones, pistons, flakes of snow, whatever but you need those things you need the mass to resist the force-( not in the case of falling ofc, you want to displace air or the matter you are falling onto such as water ) something that objects cannot pierce, and something to stop the forces dissipated from being directed into you, you need them to go around you, not through you, that's the deadly part
this is also nothing like medieval plate, chain or leather, that do not alter the compression and thus the hydraulic pressure your body is under when load is applied to it they are 'not connected' to you, where as a compression suit is mechanically altering your body's ability to distribute forces ( which is what stops your blood sticking in one place )
now, if you could squeeze a nano-suit inside one of these larger mech suits, you have it all, super tough skin a flexible impact absorbing membrane, and i believe the nano-suit 2 even has an inner skin of a compression suit so you'd be as isolated as possible from all external forces and blood pooling and hydraulic pressure effects of g-forces if you're ever going to survive a fall from that height that has to be the way
although, think about it a second why do you really need to?
just deploy a parachute
and
i believe my comment was it could not survive, not that 'a solid suit would / could clearly protect you'
i was commenting on it's durability more than anything as it is clearly displayed in the game as having static on the screen, and a broken hud and mask when you pass out and then die from falling damage
it's 'cannon' that the suit has it's limits, that's what makes it feel more real at the end of the day i guess but that makes it score less on the nerd-scale top trumps style, imo
