Mark Rober
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then you track the soccer ball, the football, and then the goalie will move to stop the shot from going in.
And Cristiano Ronaldo tried to go against it.
And the punchline is he has no prayer.
Even from the penalty kick spot, kicking it 80 miles an hour, this thing, in the first six milliseconds, we knew where the goalie needed to be.
That means the ball goes from here.
Once it's moved an inch, we know exactly where we need to be.
How?
Because you just have three points.
We're tracking at 500 hertz.
Right.
Or sorry, yeah, 500 hertz.
So it's like every two milliseconds, we take a snapshot, snapshot, snapshot.
And so you just three points, make two points, make a line, connect that line.
Okay.
We need to go right there.
So literally it's, it's less than a blink and half of a blink of an eye and it's already in spot.
It feels like it probably hasn't even left his foot.
Yeah, that's right.
And when we know, and then it takes a little bit of time, even at 40 miles an hour, it takes a bit of wobble.
Yeah.