hey everybody it's Comic Con it's tested calm and it's also time for Adam
incognito as you know I walk the floor every year in costume this year I'm
doing another space suit just like I did last year actually lacerated two space
suits and this year I'm walking in the Magnificent clavia space suits from 2001
there's been a lot of 2001 replicas made over the years but nobody has yet fully
replicated the silver clavia space suits to remind you these are the suits worn
worn by Heywood Floyd as he goes to investigate the magnetic anomaly on
Tycho crater in the middle of 2001 I've got all the parts and pieces the soft
suit the backpack the front pack and this year I'm doing something totally
novel that may throw people off because I think if I just wore this on the floor
people would be like that's got to be Adam Savage so I'm throwing them off the
scent by actually walking in to costumes that's right I'm walking with a partner
and the partner I'm walking with come on over here is an actual astronaut a face
of gentleman Chris Hadfield will be walking with me Chris have you ever worn
a fake spacesuit before no no I've either worn our training suits the ones
in space or ones that have been in space so this is a first for me and never been
to comic-con so it's it's a heck of a way to start you are getting you are
diving right into the deep end I will say also that one of the key things that
I loved about that scene is Floyd on his way to Tycho in the rocket bus has lunch
with his compadres so I've spent the last few weeks replicating a pair of
Floyd's lunch boxes they're actually fully lined in insulated bubble wrap
which I would assume if the art directors in 2001 had access if that's
what they would have put in here and we've got some sandwiches so that while
we're out there on the floor if we decide to have lunch we can pull our
helmets ah spacewalk on his hungry work though I imagine the other advance that
I've made everyone remembers I almost got heat stroke last year is this is my
setup unit for a pair of integrated cooling units one for each of our
backpacks these will recirculate water through a pair of
cooling shirts what do you call these again well the LC VG's liquid cooling
ventilation garments with the quick disconnects and these quick disconnects
connect into here when we fill this with ice and water and we turn it on we it
will power for 90 minutes it will power cold water around our chest all of this
is powered by these beautiful little lithium-ion drill batteries which I put
this and we'll have extras they're easy to change what's cool when you're in a
real spacesuit you're listening to exactly that same sound there's the
there's the gentle sound of the fan and the liquid cooling ventilation when
you're alone in the universe it gets a little quieter because you're low
pressure but that's really you got the sound of your own breathing like they
did in 2001 but you have the little whining sound of the pump pump on the
water around your body so even audio realism that's awesome I have in
included I have added in a pair of squirrel cage fans in the helmet that
blow across the visor powered by a little USB power supply cool and to hide
our identities I actually had a window tinting place just put some window
tinting on some thin plastic and this is an insert so that we can remain I'll
demonstrate yes who's that I have no idea who that could be well sounds cool
in here yeah you know what I'm convinced after putting these on that Stanley
Kubrick actually recorded Dave Bowman's breathing from inside one of the prop
helmets because it sounds identical and and that was such a smart move on their
part because that is your companion when you're outside on a spacewalk if the
thing that's with you always is your own breathing no just kind of a nice
reminder yeah while you're out there then you're alone in the universe well
we're not going we're gonna have a distinctly different view from these
spacesuits than you have had when you've worn yours we're gonna see lots of but
you're gonna love comic-con the culture here is one of transformation and I run
into more aliens yes you're gonna run into a lot of aliens from many different
franchises shall we start getting suited up I think
it's time okay I think the first step is start I'll bring out these the soft
suits nice yes beautiful the things get up close and personal when you have to
zip that zipper I actually use a dog leash when I've had to do this alone
yeah like we have them on ours as well oh really
yeah yep we call this the cadaver zipper - I noticed right
there's this distinct moment in taking this suit off in which because the neck
ring and the geometry you have to unzip and then stick your butt right out the
biz that you guys have to do the same thing exactly the same motion yes so is
it's it's not it's not the most viewer friendly activity getting in out of a
suit they don't show that part of NASA TV though you know we have heaters in
our space clothes really yeah right behind every fingertips really heated
right between every finger - yeah just on the top of each each fingernail
there's a little heater and you can turn it on and off the switch is a cloth
switch halfway up your suit arm so if your fingers are getting cold because
it's minus 150 in the shavers turn on the margarita machine all right
the backpacks okay now so the first trick is to hook up the power so you can
rest it on the top there they're polarized
oh okay well that's why we do a systems check yep yep okay okay so then that
slips in here like this you know the Russian spacesuit the its you can do
this on orbit with it you can get in and fix everything and it's got these
connectors all over the place really funny yeah it's on orbit maintainable
it's not nearly as high-tech as the American one but it's you can fix it
yourself which is kind of nice on a spaceship I'm gonna connect the straps
up so next is we got to prep the suit as I have not yet cut the holes in the suit
for these going right that's what you needed the big dagger for yeah oh I
don't like cutting through stuff we never do this yeah just kind of you fine
oh there we go brilliant Oh some cultures we'd be
married cupich arms all the way first I don't I put the head through first yeah
different than us
awesome oh it helps to do a lot better
no that looks great nice alright let's put on our boots first okay this would
be a lot easier in zero-g no no boots is the hardest thing is here to float over
oh right to taking all that walls and everything
alright next step is this this one you
alright Chris I'm gonna systems check right please do I do it's working
awesome awesome I don't want to feel is wet right right okay don't let your
cooling lines takes about five seconds small the back oh yeah
it's more computer okay all right now oh wait there's one other piece there's a
secondary blower just to help and you just turn the other way show me your
other side that goes from there there
there thank you for co2 build-up what's that
Oh Cody short never the chopping block
doing at an emergency tracheotomy all right Chris so this actually can give
you fresh air from the other switch into your helmet okay and we'll put it on
when your helmets in okay I'll get this and it may smell a little like magic
marker so that's actually gonna be like a nice silver oh right I almost forgot
we've got to pack our lunch here's your lunchbox and there's a couple of
sandwiches and her the last time we were talking from Earth and space
you got pickles on your sandwich Mike I've been waiting years for pickles
pickles on a space station you might even put your gloves in there so that we
walked without the cover that's good no I think we're ready the floor almost
alright you feel ready for your first comic-con there's no quick checklist we
got silver spacesuits silver space it's check we got two helmets helmets check
balaclavas on balaclavas on do we have lunch we have lunch ready to go let's go
that's what
are you doing outstanding much fun is that that is a that is a quintessential
comic-con experience it's hot you can barely say it was perfect everyone's
kind of freaking out very fun very fun worked out great I've worked that you
can even your inner glasses or what yeah no I know it's never not an exercise in
sweaty I told you space walking is a hungry thing oh let's go have some lunch
I think I think we should go some lunch all right spacewalk complete space look
complete that was I I hope you had as much fun as I did that was much better
than less there was us Danny I am so cool oh yeah actually I still got coal
ball humping around me it's great all right shall we have some lunch I've
worked up and having lunch should be good well I got a few things on my
helmet just like normal yep yeah to me this is the things are
walking the custom walk it's like everything has to be perfect up until
then but then whatever digs you get that's just natural agent whether you
want to bang something with your visor right yeah one of these has pedals look
at that this and they're actually nice and cool silver fabric thermal bubble
wrap lying face walking he's a hungry work and what's needed to pause for a
second no just listen what we do that's the pulling system we're like harmony
arm here we're like bionics cheers Cheers
excellent system you know we put the blowers in the back of our head so it
comes around the curve and goes all the devisor from the top Cesar that would
have made a lot more sense see the the fog pattern right so yeah well we're
directed up this we always do and then it pushes it down now
I was also thinking about putting a couple of cooling lines in the head yeah
you can buy those two of course you can buy the cooler suit helmets
that's a great yeah yeah we say someone was asking about it the other day why
they'd like to buy it they say there's something like kind of amazingly
technological about carrying your own around the system at the same time it's
ludicrously vulnerable like it's ballsy that you're doing it and it's falling
over yeah oh my god after an 11-hour of luck you don't have food out there do
you yeah they used to try and put food in but it always got messed up yeah
class
it's like a good of Hawaii spent all that time in the water all you want to
do is seen hamburgers it must be like that times a million
the helmets of silicon ruminant that's what I love but the the forward Bulger
it gives you so much I was using my face to clear my advisor yeah doing this
costume walks for seven or eight years giving a really intimate relationship
with being sweaty and being okay but even actors give over to it well
what I do I am when you doing so use water survival training
so I found I did after a while I would say to the crew it's cold in your room
and actually go through the mental exercise of feeling cold and it helped
under several minutes or your body just knew what that was like yeah yeah it's
not overheat it's kind of funny yeah just walk around
yeah what else you should see what we dressed up