James May steps into a vacuum chamber - James May at the Edge of Space - BBC

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1. Its simulating high altitude not A vacuum.
2. okay so you managed to produce a suit that can withstand a high vacuum in a controlled environment. now let's see if you have the dexterity to operate simple tools.
3. Its fake guys
4. it's faked the two man whiteout suit's are also in the chamber, they would also have to be boiled. he never were in a vacuum!! 17000 feed, as up in the air. vacuum space suit testing is so outdated. they test suit's in water, but don't ask them why ;-)
5. Notice that the surgical glove pops. This happens because the glove reaches it's failure point while there is still an amount of air in the vacuum chamber.
6. Facing death good.
7. YES, not only should NOT of heard the pop of the glove. I hate to say this, but I haven't found any truth in almost any demonstration involving space. So I was hoping to see this video and find somthing real. But instead, even these guys are staging fake scenarios. I mean how hard is it to just create a vacuum chamber and do this honestly???? Look at this video. The glove SHOULD of inflated the fingers just as easiliy as the body of the glove. Since it is negatively pressurized the fingers would have inflated along with the body. Looks to me they ran a hose from the outside into that glove.
   
   Then the water just suddenly exploded, when it should of just started boiling earlier and vaporized with a nice steady vapor trail.
   
   Then we somehow have two guys in the chamber wearing jet masks (and without a tank), they close the door. Then THEY ARE GONE!!! What was the purpose of them being in there with masks anyway. You couldn't have possibly depressurized the room then opened the door to let them out! And they would have died anyway as they were wearing normal clothes!!!!!!!!
   
   Look at the guy's suit as they supposedly depressurized the room, the suit should of shown signs if inflation (just like the glove). Instead nothing happens and he is just sitting there. He should of looked like the stay puft marshmellow man.
   
   Then for the grand finale, the operator repressurizes to 1 atmosphere by just opening the valve. And what happens???? The suit expands???? and his helmet is pushed UP! So much so that the guy inside panics since it is stretching his neck. THIS IS TOTALLY OPPOSITE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!!!! His suit should have compressed down. But of course it never inflated, so there would be no show.
   
   All they did was actually inflate his suit with air, and they scared him.
   
   I believe this guy James totally believes that he was depressurized, and they pulled a very poor stage show on him.
   
   If anybody wants to see what it REALLY takes to survive a pure vacuum, you need to look at the Litton RX2 Hard suit on the internet. How did we go from needing a litton hard suit to a simple cloth suit that somehow magically has no visible depressurizing effects!!!!!!
8. If tears were to boil (not saying they wouldn't) then the people with the masks on would of had serious problems with their eyes. Just sayin..
9. Now onto myth busters proving a rocket engine in space in a fish tank on earth ha ha ha.
10. What about the two technicians with him without pressure suits?
11. wait a second, you have a guy in a sealed suit to be protected from a vacuum yet there are 2 guys in there with standard silicon oxygen masks for pilots? how in the world do they not suffocate from the vacuum effects sucking the oxygen out from around the unsealed, place on your face, silicon half-masks?? just totally unbelievable what these people will peddle....
12. Question: The sound of the glove popping should not have been heard if it were a true vacuum chamber right? Sound waves are not propagated in a vacuum are they?
13. beepandpop... Pure water at sea level boils at 100 degrees celsius. As you go up the pressure in our atmosphere reduces, the lower the pressure the lower the temperature that water boils. At the top of everest water boils at about 70 degrees. The only way to increase the temperature is to put it under pressure. So take a pressure cooker with you...
14. Hardly the edge of space with assistants standing in fatigues and masks? 
15. It`s not "Captain Slow" its now "Major Slow"! :))
16. 3:54 no boasting,...LOL
17. @beepandbop water can boil at high temperature or at low pressure. The only difference is, at high temperature, it's hot, and at low pressure it's cold. at high temp, the particles of a liquid gain enough kinetic energy to break free from the intermolecular attraction that hold them together. At low pressure, the intermolecular attraction isn't so great, so the particles can break free just the same (at low temp) it's a balancing act between temp and pressure. for boling: HT & LP or LT & HP
18. so i just to flip this over my (darn i dont want to say penis)...glans. (SHIT!)
19. It's amazing how squeemish people are when it comes to just saying the word "penis". All kinds of euphemisms and beating about the bush.
20. He says that at 1:40, they are simulating a "catastrophic pressure drop", but it looks as though they are repressurising, because: 1. The pressure change is instant: normally depressurisation takes awhile, because the vacuum pumps can only work so fast. 2. Water vapour appears in the air: boils during depressurisation, but it did the opposite. However, it looks as though his suit inflates rapidly, which would be true for rapid depressurisation. Hmmm, I'm dumbfounded, anyone have any ideas?