The real test starts at 11 minutes and shows frightening problems of the Nazi clown cars.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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Mark Rober. Why did it have to be Mark Rober.
Why not? Seems fitting an ex NASA engineer show Elon, the man currently trying to dismantle NASA, just what kind of intelligent people exist in that agency.
I don't know anything about him, what's wrong with him exactly?
He shouts all the time. My theory is that the shouty style works for younger US audiences.
For a non-American it’s grating AF.
There's something about his presentation style I just can't stand. Just the epitome of the "hey what's up guys" approach.
His target audience is teenagers, so that’s what you get. I think having a guy like him teach kids about LiDAR and stuff in an entertaining way is a win.
But yeah, as a 30 year old I agree he’s a bit too much.
I think that's largely because he wants to make his channel as kid-friendly as possible. If you watch some of his real early videos, he has a much calmer, more lecture-like demeanor without all the goofy edits and other modern YouTube tropes.
His other big business venture is a subscription box for kids, which I think it aimed for around 8-13 year olds, so I imagine he's adopted his current personality to try to appeal to that audience.
It's for kids, dude
I love some of the stuff he does (the hot wheels race is absolute gold), but I agree. He's only leaned further into the cringe since launching crunch labs.
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It's very modern, cheesy & spoon-feedy. Lots of staging. Overly friendly. Like it is filmed with the approval and oversight of HR.
I know what you mean. He does some amazing things, but I tend to stick to the highlights rather than sit through whole videos. This one, the elephant toothpaste vid, and others like it can be watched as a 15 second clip if you just want to see the hook.
It clearly works for his target audience, so I can respect sticking to the formula.
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Youtube mad scientist
Okay come on, Styropyro fits the bill way better for “mad scientist”
Aw come on, I thought the lasers versus watermelons demo was a lot of fun, and if that isn't mad science, I don't know what is
Don't get me wrong, I love Mark, but his content is kind of, tailored to the masses, you know what I mean? Fun stuff you can do at home! A mad scientist might do something more insane, such as connect 100 car batteries together to rival the power of lightning...
NurdRage ticks the box for me. Also NileRed before he moved out of a garage lab. Still cool though.
Styropyro genuinely has a screw loose, explosions and fire also fits the bill. And he's Australian.
The question is could this fool a human
Also I went and watched the video and he doesn't seem to even use full self driving for the wall test
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This is what happens when you don't lidar
So to stop robotaxis, all we have to do is paint a fake road directly into a rock wall with a painted on tunnel.
If the roadrunner cartoons taught me anything, it's that no matter what happens, whether you've been blown to smithereens or fell off a cliff and subsequently flattened by a boulder, you'll be good as now in the next scene.
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