I'm not picking on the suits or the folks who made them. All I'm saying is that they're getting used in situations where maybe they shouldn't.

The helmet is a plastic trash can lid and a transparent plexiglass hemisphere from Edmunds Scientific clamshelled together. The simu-nauts from what I've seen, routinely wear them while bussing around in the wilds of Utah on the four wheeler ATVs..

Not only do the helmets provide no actual protection from head trauma in the way of padding, but the clear hemispheres are actually quite brittle and could shatter into long plastic shards upon impact with something. And also, like any pair of cheap plastic lensed sunglasses, the visibility from the helmets is now impaired severely from scratches on the plexi-dome (I saw them a few months ago).