Mark Rober
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And literally, I was in charge of a trunk on the top of the rover.
The arm go digs in the dirt, takes that sample, puts it into the belly of the rover, and like...
I designed the hardware to accept that.
And it's still working, fingers crossed, on Mars.
That's still going.
Yeah.
Which is wild when you look up at the sky, you know.
All the stars look the same.
Mars has a little bit of red tint to it, right?
You know where your baby is.
Yeah, and it's like, that's 90 million miles away.
And I've touched something that's rolling around on that dot in the sky.
And what's really cool is on Earth, things oxidize and break down.
So they crumble and go away, right?
So...
let's say, you know, thanks to AI or whatever you want to say, a million years from now, our species is done.
There won't be any, if you came here, you would just see nature.
Like at that point, everything's broken down and crumbled and rusted and gone away.
So the aliens would come and they just see this lush planet.
And then they'd go to Mars and be like, what the hell are these?