Rover will race for jackpot

[coconuts739158426]

0:25 CRT monitors??? like they can afford a space rover but CRT?????

[redghost105]

you know fucking seriously these guys, if you think about it are complete idiots

they have mlllions of millions of dollars to spend freely on shit

but all they come up with is something that costs hundreds of thousands and can only move at a mph or 2?

congratulations you fumb fucks

[monkpkey]

Man this is like the 10th video i watch from Newscientist .... and all of your comments are very poor , all of you . Wheres the creative comments ? The links to this competition ? instead ... its all about crappy rims , bigger egos , whos gay , and omg look at that spending ..... im sry i had to swoop to this lvl to write this comment . but i felt like i had to get that off my chest and return your bad karma to all you LOW - lifes .....

[GiantDoucheNG]

LIGHTER TAHN MEHDULLL

[Gearz86]

lol was about to post the same thing

[77pizzaman]

nice rims

[connardbomb]

seriously de fuk??? just tape a camcorder to my effing walmart rc car and away we go!

[bloodtracer100]

its not nearly that simple idiot!

[billwenchaojiang]

oh yeah don't forgot there maybe a enter fee!!!! LIKE 100 TEAM SPEND LIKE 4 MILLION BUCK EACH. THEN THE ALSO PAY LIKE 500G FOR ENTERING, AND ONE OF THE TEAM MAKE IT AND GET 20M, THERE IS 40 TEAM MEMBER, THEY EACH GET 500G. yeah that is what will happen. you know obama use this to boost the economic. there is like 400 m going into consumer spend , shit lol that is smart . just kiding

[Sc0ttPrian]

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!!!!!

[nixnix99]

OOOHHH MY GAWD!!

[teamforteress]

''lider dan medal'' change ur mother fucking narrator dammit

[adrenelinryan]

"but yet lighter than medal" i hate her accent

[MrRivas84]

fuck that , you would need $20 million just to get the fucker up there.

[mickderkskouta]

lol make that 200 million

[lasteve99]

is this channel and videos a joke or what=????

[LemonsNeedHelp]

I would simply send my Fast Trax with a camera attached to it, write a simple program that would tel the carr to accelerate forward, turn around, and snap a pic. If they're just there for the contest, I'd have to think it'd be simpler than trying to build a robot.

I, of course, am oversimplifying it, but my point is that they're over-complicating it.

[CHAS1422]

$20,000,000 for a scientist?

I thought you had to be a banker, football player, wallstreet scammer, lottery winner, spoiled trust funder, hollywod lowlife, real-estate slaesman, mortgage broker, insurance executive, etc... to be a millionaire.

Maybe there is hope afterall!

[Spanky2k]

$20,000,000 for a team of 30 odd people after development costs of more than the prize money. :( It's a start at least.

[blizard0717]

Actually the scientists who get that money are already rich... Because I'm sure that robot cost's at least 3 times that amount of money.... That's why is a group of 30 super rich smart guys...

[BaneOfFreeSpeech]

@blizard0717 most scientists are not rich. they work for companies, organizations, and teams that get grants from science organizations and government to do research like this.

[blizard0717]

Yeah... you're right, but getting those funds doesn't mean they're not rich dude, to get to that level of intelect you have to spend a lot of money. And to get such a high qualified work into your hands you have to have some nice status in what you do.... so maybe they are not swiming on money, but they surely have a nice amount

[BaneOfFreeSpeech]

@blizard0717 well my parents must have missed out as my mother was a molecular biologist and my father was a physicist and for some reason we were living very very middle class some could even say lower middle class. Both worked long hard hours. All their friends were scientist and not many of them were better off.  Now head lab scientists may be better off but I have yet to see a porsche, ferrari, lambo, or any car above 100,000 in a parking lot where I or my parents work.

[blizard0717]

Well maybe they are not as good as some other scientist... or maybe they are working on the wrong places. Cause in my country cientist are really well paid, but maybe is beacuse of the lack of scientists here.

[BaneOfFreeSpeech]

Well I am sure in Guatemala they do make good money. As there aren't as many scientist per capita as there is in america. I doubt the few hundred scientist I have met in my lifetime are all poor scientists.

[djindio555]

Cool stuff, It'd be fun to drive the thing remote on the moon.

[ALAPAT1]

"it's lighter than medal"

please start pronouncing things right!

[charlieclown]

those kids are going to win 20million dollars for making a robot like they use in robot wars?

[nsewx]

the rocket could fail..shit happens.

[resignator]

If robot wars had no atmosphere, a rocky terrain, temperatures that fluctuate from from 123 to -233 Celsius, and required a rocket to take it the minimum of 238,857 miles....then I might agree with your point.

[d1ez3]

I can create the suspension system for this in my senior design project

[RarewareLover]

Obsticles 6 inches tall?

O BABY

[ridingisasport]

If it lands in a flat area there shouldnt be a problem. Presumably it can steer around things.

[FalconNeko]

who is gona pay for it to get to the moon ? lol

[kazimann]

I was thinking the same thing!

[Zoiros85]

At 0:36 what is she saying? "...the moons bigger/beaker gravity."? ... aaa now I hear it: "weaker".. However that was an afoul pronounsiation.

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

No, the pronunciation is fine. Everybody else could understand, you're just sheltered.

[Paxmax]

alumin-i-um please!

[AnonEyeMouse]

Either is viable, especially if the video is produced for an americanised market.

[flipperlok]

Not in the US.

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

Three syllables is easier though!

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

Plus, everybody knows what 'aluminum' is. You're just being picky.

[smegma82]

why??? i'm no conspiracy thearist but if we have actually walked there why send probes??

[CozmoNz]

you didnt hear the 20 million dollar prize part?

and why? because its a fucking huge deal putting something on the moon. Go on, you do it :P haha

[TheFluffyDuck]

BEcasue Governments cant do it forever we need industry and commercial bodies to make the plunge to space.

This is alot cheaper than sending a man

[julian1000]

Also, if it fails it's not a huge deal.

[ErikjStudios]

well put. We can replace parts, not people.

[Shaunt1]

This is different, this isn't NASA. Other people are trying to get there.

[pljjs]

looks like something from an old sci-fi movie ;D

[muffins99]

We've already been to the moon.. Decades ago!

[ReductioAdAbsurdum]

"first thing on the moon"

Because God knows if it can be done for 20 million, it sure as fuck couldn't be done 100 billion, amirite? *facepalm*

[snugsaltynutz]

You're a jackass. Even if you are a "moonlanding conspiracy theory" nut job. The Russians put a probe on the moon around the same time US landed there.

[Maracachucho]

at first i was like :|

but when she said "20 million dollar prize"

i went PPPPPFFFFFTTTTTTT o.O

[thestalkinghead]

20 million, humm i may give it a go

[CSIS25]

yeah really lol

[bloodironfire]

you'd think that they would use a softer tire and rim set up. so it could form over objects like off road jeeps use.

[kittenclaws]

Aluminum is lighter than rubber and thus requires less fuel to get to space. Also, Rubber doesn't like extreme temperature changes very much. Plus, you don't actually want any sort of "bounce" when you're dealing with low gravity.

[romanali1]

alumi-ni-um, nor alu-mnm

[masterv11]

nerd

[FxH1337]

unsubing

[niiidar]

haha, lol... Looks weird XD