New Scientist video round-up - June 20, 2008

[CareeLamberte4]

so looking for some fun if you know what i mean just msg meh

[Eschatus2]

Yuck! I could have done without the ovary video.

[Eschatus2]

Why does NASA frivolously & flagrantly spend gazillions of American Taxpayer dollars to develop a rover when they can just merely use an all-terrain Hummer and just outfit and customize the vehicle with all the essential equipment and alternative fuel? DUH! NASA is so STUPID! When STUPID NASA spent $1,000,000.00 to develop a fountain pen to write in zero gravity space, the SMART Russians used ordinary lead PENCILS (!) at a mere cost of 2 cents each. LOL! Who really won the space race?

[korgri]

The Russians don't tell you about how tiny bits of that lead pencil flake off and you breathe them in and 5 years later your kidneys are profoundly poisoned with lead. NASA flagrantly spends that precious money to keep the even more precious economy moving. That's a gazillion dollars making it's way into salaries of the company employees whose R&D depts built the rover and $1M pen; then into their homes and neighborhood supermarkets. It doesn't fall into holes in the ground.

[Eschatus2]

Sure, if you believe that fairytale perhaps you should be writing science fiction.

[korgri]

I would run the risk of having too many believe it.... normally it might not be a problem, but here we have this one particular issue of a population majority that doesn't know the crucial difference between belief and knowledge. The sad but handy upshot is that it makes personality ID very easy, people are themselves what they so willingly and quickly illustrate as the traits of others.

[Eschatus2]

No living organism can continue for long to exist sanely in under conditions of absolute reality, even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream. Presumptuous at is may seem, those who do, do; and those who dont, dont.

[korgri]

Isn't that like that line from that country music song:

There are two kinds of women in the world,

those that drive trucks and those that don't

There are two kinds of truck drivin' women;

those that do, and those that don't

It may seem on the surface to be a bit of a lark, but if Katy did it I guess we can do it too. Katy who? And what did she do? Existed realistically in a condition of absolute sanity.

Or just claimed to have dreamt it up.

[Eschatus2]

Not quite, but a great comeback just the same. :-)

It was from the opening of Shiley Jackson's 1959 novel, "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" with artistic license by me (she's most noted for her prior novel "THE LOTTERY".)

[amfikz]

1:30 :D why NASA just don't uses the technics from old mission to moon? :D

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cause they haven't been there.

[R0tta]

such a stupit conspiracy!

[pugggs]

stupit isn't a word.

[licataj2007]

I guess nasa used there old movie stage sites to demostrate to us

IF YOU CANT MAKE IT FAKE IT

[pugggs]

i think you meant to say...."their" - showing possession. whereas "there" demonstrates a place.

[korgri]

Right,, by the same gov't conspiracy people who faked the atom bomb, got a whole bunch of Japanese to commit suicide on cue when they saw the big flash in the sky over their cities. Now the same gov't people, seeing how much success they had convincing you that it was fake, are now faking the internet, which is just an elaborate spiderweb-like network of strings and tin cans. We have all been duped so deeply we cannot tell that we are really all on a giant NASA sound stage in Arizona.

[Mr8081970]

lol!!!!

[ketanovas]

let's mewv to the mewn

[psycho6754]

something random

[Abrin19]

Did she say that one of the space vechiles was design to cope with the terrain on the MOON. When was there an official plan on gooing to the moon? Is there something gooing on that we should know about. I smell a dumbass conspiracy. =)

[jasonguyperson]

NASA has been planning a return trip to set up an outpost near 2020. But with the economy the way it is, it will probably be pushed further back

[iCONICAACINOCi]

I soo can't wait for that pig one!

[cagronomy]

lol, I love youtube comments

[Solarfi]

i love Irish chicks.

[royglasgow]

She's not irish, that's a glaswegian accent

[adioslave94]

its annoying

[lewigimole]

lmao she's scotish!... or did you want somebody to say this?

[HottiesInc]

this is worse than getting rick rolled

[lvecsey]

discovery channel just ran a special on the mercuri gemini apollo programs, and shuttle missions. the new moon related program footage they just released gave a much better feel of the elevated funding and military like oversight that led to those successes

[bestiaccia]

Very interesting video!

[zueq]

the latest robot which landed on mars cost around 430 Million dollars...the world is starving because of lack of funds and food and suffering from tornadoes and earthquakes and 430 Millions would make a difference and help the poor...

[ficklefiend]

It might be expensive but isn't it worth doing for it's own sake- to push the human race forward?

[chaplinfan48]

I've got to agree.There are so many things in everyday life that came about because of space exploration,it's amazing.If we got the hell out of Iraq, we'd have plenty of money for a lot of things.

[zueq]

Yes I agree my dear but I guess nowadays there are more Important issues to concentrate on.

[CavallinoSilver]

You don't understand the importance of space exploration. The goal is to colonize it. Mars particularly, but first at least we must return to the moon. What good will it be to cure cancer if the resources in this planet are already running out? Yes other things are important too but space exp is a life or death issue in the long run.

[EllipticalMobile]

None of it will matter if we are not off the planet when the next big rock hits. All the stuff you refer to will be as a gnat on an elephants ass compared to what will happen then.

[CavallinoSilver]

Helping the poor is important but space exploration is vital to our long term survival. And that is to all of us, rich, poor, everyone.

[eddiesteele]

The final frontier. The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961 -- 1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions. President John F. Kennedy announced this goal in 1961, and it was accomplished on July 20, 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission. Five other Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in 1972. These six flights are the only times humans have landed on another world.

[britishbass]

we never went to the moon, a little while ago when nasa announced another moon trip they asked for 12 years. okay, well how'd they do it in 10 during the 60s??

[kevinbocking]

they had a huge chunk of the economy for NASA in the 60s. We could go to the Moon now, its simply a lack of funds to do it.

[Ezmarii]

Cold war rush to beat the russians. A much larger % of the country's budget was appropriated back then. Also, the amount of safety measures incorporated were next to non-existant compared to what we expect, and what we're capable of. Safety is the big issue, which means more testing and more money than last time. The skin of thelunar capsule that landed on the moon is compareable to the thickness of aluminium foil you have in your kitchen. Yeah, real safe there. =)

[britishbass]

k thx wanted to hear the optimistic side of it, ^ that ones all I hear not my opinion haha

[ajkasse1]

the moon rovers are cool

[LETHLSS]

we should have already had a lab on the moon, yrs ago. way too long a gap in the last walk on the moon, and next one. and that space bus with wings is long over due for the scrap heap. we should already be preparing for a manned Mars mission. but sadly that probably won't happen in my lifetime.

[TheLethargicAtheist]

human corpses underwater :) bye bye

[CuteBeaner]

the gas giant... full of bullshit.

[hiya765]

Does she know that you hid a cam in her vagina???

[ThunderStormV5000]

I want tee get up cloze and purrrsinal with her AYE!

[Mike14x]

Let's all go to the Mewn! Lmao!

[yaboysteelers]

Awsome Video

[NASAedge]

Cool. Ron Beard and Franklin Fitzgerald of NASA EDGE shot the footage at Moses Lake.

Blair

[bred2k6]

(Edinburgh accent)

[Molliepet]

Excellent vd

[yellowman88]

That looks nasty!

[TexTK]

damn

i never knew a scottish accent can be sooo hot.

[hassleoffa]

She's obviously Japanese.

[Nawazo]

no offense but tht accent is waaay too strong

[zatiel]

I'm from the U.S. and understood her perfectly. Where are you from, and is English your first language? I find sometimes that accents in second languages are more difficult to comprehend. It could also be that I see a lot of BBC television and am used to British accents.

[uncljoedoc]

Oh I get it it's an Irish Rover

[uncljoedoc]

say what? what happens to human what under water? Caerpses?

[puretroubleman]

Its a very light scottish accent,

[p1on33r]

she talks kind of funny :P

[authmaax]

"to the miin" ??

using the "bildozer..." ??

"feiinally" ??

or is it "neiw" ??

oh funny separation...! ahaha

[intelligentfalling]

I luv u guyz

[Reijerkolle]

English people sound like they have half of their tongue missing

[ThompsonSeedless]

you sound like you have half of your brain missing...no offence to those folks that we hear about in these types of videos that do.

[jeffreyw90]

I believe her accent is South African, not English.

[wongsmokesbong]

........no i think its scottish lol.

[SobaniForce]

haha fool.

[jeffreyw90]

lol i got owned there

[Jace33k]

what is wrong with her eye?!¬

[longz654321]

lazy eyes lol

[2013andBeyonD]

A bulldozer.. on the moon for a landing strip? Awsome.

[cant7think7clearly]

That's what I was thinking!

[TheBlackShinigami]

sahe looked nice not to old not to young

not like those old people on shows like this (on offense)

[Orion602]

where is she from?

[operationturkey]

If you mean the girl at the beggining, she has a northern english accent.

[Orion602]

thanx :)

[bred2k6]

No, it is a Scottish accent.

[Orion602]

ok. I see

[Quarlmarx]

Scottish!

[bred2k6]

No she doesn't. She has a Scottish accent.

[GetMeThere1]

Like watching Trainspotting...without "English" subtitles.

[maevista]

he accent make my ears bleeding

[synapsetransfer]

ha, she had a cool accent