Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "How NASA Reinvented The Wheel" video.

I'm sure a lot of people have known of this material for a good long while, but that NASA is going to use it for the tires of the rover is new information to me and is quite exciting. My first thought for durable tires that flex was giant springs with wavy plates attached to the ends that contact the ground and then wires to thread through holes connecting contiguous plates so the wouldn't get too out of sync as the tires rotate. I did an experiment and had tubes inside the springs to keep them from bottoming out and it worked fairly well, but they were beyond heavy. This looks like a better idea.
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@JohnDoe-bd5sz Why would we use it for car or airplane tires on Earth? That would be kind of wasteful, both monetarily and materially. The only reason it's even needed is for extraterrestrial exploration in adverse or non-existent atmospheres. Also, you can't rubberize metal.
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@JohnDoe-bd5sz I must've missed that in the video, but if so that's a really silly thing to do. Instead of paying $400 for a new set of tires we'd wind up paying $400,000. No, thank you, to that.
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