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Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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I don't think any body cares about that. Specially when you can collect the plastic balls (because it's in your pool) and recycle it (which I'm sure he did, I don't think he dumped it in his kitchen trash can). He also uses biodegradable glitter.

> biodegradable glitter ok, wow. TIL such thing exists.

They don't. See links above.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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Thanks for pointing this out. I've enjoyed quite a few of Mark's videos over the years. He's clearly smart and talented, but it was unsettling how insanely productive he seemed to be. That sort of thing naturally creeps into my subconscious and not in a healthy way. He mentions the people he works with but the videos are still presented in a way that makes them feel like a single person production. I should've figure…

He also pollutes the environment with all of his projects. Filling his swimming pool with plastic balls for views.

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Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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Right, but intent matters. You're not allowed to boobytrap your property, but beyond that you won't be held liable for burglars injuring themselves. I mean, if instead of glitter and fart spray the thing was wired specifically to explode and kill the thief, the argument "they stole my explosives and blew themselves up" won't hold water. I'm curious what a court would rule on this matter - anywhere from fart spray ove…

> You're not allowed to boobytrap your property Apparently no-one told Kevin McCallister

He was home alone.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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This guy sure gets a lot of milage out of his past employer. It's rare to hear him mentioned without NASA being mentioned in the same breath.

It definitely lends credibility; versus the introduction from the other comment - that this is the guy that glitter bombs package thieves on youtube - which makes me take this less seriously.

Those packages are designed incredibly well, IMO. There's a lot of things that can go wrong and he seems to reliably get footage of it being opened and recovers most of the packages, too.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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If you’re into this type of engineering check out “stuff made here” or “BPS Space”.

"Stuff Made Here" is amazing. I can't believe how talented that guy is. And he seems much less edited/fake than Rober (who I also enjoy). I watch both of their videos whenever they upload a new one, but "Stuff Made Here" appeals much more to my engineering side, and I appreciate the lack of "showmanship" that is so prevalent in Rober videos.

Rober cuts to the chase. I think it's tuned for a different audience. "Stuff Made Here" guy is willing to show all of the "wrong turns" on the way to a good design. Rober's audience doesn't get a chance to get bored with one of those wrong turns and change the channel. But "Stuff Made Here" will attract an audience that is curious about the process that got him there.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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This guy sure gets a lot of milage out of his past employer. It's rare to hear him mentioned without NASA being mentioned in the same breath.

Unlike the founders that went to Stanford MIT, or who are ex-Apple/Google/FB etc. Headlines are short, and you have to get a lot done with as few words as possible. NASA is strongly associated with "smart engineering and problem solving" - good branding for a course like this.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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If you’re into this type of engineering check out “stuff made here” or “BPS Space”.

"Stuff Made Here" is amazing. I can't believe how talented that guy is. And he seems much less edited/fake than Rober (who I also enjoy). I watch both of their videos whenever they upload a new one, but "Stuff Made Here" appeals much more to my engineering side, and I appreciate the lack of "showmanship" that is so prevalent in Rober videos.

not to mention he's gotten almost 2m subscribers in less than a year on ~20 purely engineering focused videos.

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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He also pollutes the environment with all of his projects. Filling his swimming pool with plastic balls for views.

How exactly is that polluting? Do you think he just abandoned the pool with the balls still present? I can see an argument that its wasteful however.

When he's done with the stupid plastic balls, where are they gonna go?

Re: Mark Rober (former NASA) launches a 30 day Creative Engineering Class

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This guy is doing a lot to pollute the environment just to get views on YouTube. Filling a swimming pool with plastic balls is one example. Has he heard of plastic pollution?

Also the guy that helped and donated $50,000 to team trees. Clearly you're trying to find a point to hate on him without acknowledging the good he's done.

So if I pollute a lot but donate to a good cause then it's ok?
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