Comments by "" (@willemvandebeek) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. Don't fly Ryan Air though! -.-
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  2. +Mohammed Raheem I paid for a ticket for a domestic flight to replace my passport. They wouldn't let me on the domestic flight, but the other airliner (FlyBe I believe) had no problem, since I wasn't crossing any borders. I have heard plenty of other horror stories from other Ryan Air customers, so I am avoiding Ryan Air like the plague... :(
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  3. There is good reason nature didn't evolve wheels; I'd say go for legs instead of wheels on the rovers.
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  4. Both imperial and metric system should be replaced with the light speed system: 1 light-nanosecond is about 1 foot or 0.3 m 1 light-microsecond is about 328 yards or 0.3 km 1 light-millisecond is about 186 miles or 300 km etc. For mass we can use electronvolts per square light speed constant and electronvolts can also be used for other measurements like energy and momentum. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt
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  5. Feathers?
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  6. Kudos for trying to pronounce Huygens the Dutch way. :)
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  7. speed isn't a requirement, those rovers already go very slow... if it has more than 4 legs, it will be balanced no matter what... not sure about the energy efficiency, but I think it should be about equal... legs can be as rigid as you want, no need for flexible materials.
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  8. Skyhook next please?
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  9. Merry Christmas, Real Engineering ppl! :)
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