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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1117 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And literally, I was in charge of a trunk on the top of the rover.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

The arm go digs in the dirt, takes that sample, puts it into the belly of the rover, and like...

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I designed the hardware to accept that.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it's still working, fingers crossed, on Mars.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

That's still going.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Which is wild when you look up at the sky, you know.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

All the stars look the same.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Mars has a little bit of red tint to it, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You know where your baby is.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah, and it's like, that's 90 million miles away.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I've touched something that's rolling around on that dot in the sky.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And what's really cool is on Earth, things oxidize and break down.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So they crumble and go away, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So...

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

let's say, you know, thanks to AI or whatever you want to say, a million years from now, our species is done.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

There won't be any, if you came here, you would just see nature.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like at that point, everything's broken down and crumbled and rusted and gone away.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So the aliens would come and they just see this lush planet.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And then they'd go to Mars and be like, what the hell are these?