Rover will race for jackpot

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17555

A robot is preparing to be sent to the moon in 2011 to compete for a 20 million dollar prize.

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• Google
• competition
• robot
• moon
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• newscientist

[connardbomb]

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

[MrRivas84]

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

[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

[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.

[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]

@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]

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 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.

[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 .....

[Gearz86]

lol was about to post the same thing

[GiantDoucheNG]

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