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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[That should be lunar, not martian soil.  Mars- martian, moon-lunar.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Smith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 1:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's also possible that Engadget editors don't know the difference between the two planetary bodies.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kaztm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 3:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[So is this going to the moon or is it going to Mars? I see references to the lunar surface and the Martian.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 1:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Engadget has become Moon Rover central. Jeez. If I wanted to read about Moon Rovers I would go to MoonGadget.com. All you Moon-Rover-fanbois can go to hell to. I'm sticking with my Mars Rover.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 1:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[For your information, Engadget provides a moon-free feed as well as a space-free feed.  Also, a moon- and space-free feed...<br><br>Thanks for that - you just made my day!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian H.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 4:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[okay, so I'm pretty clueless when it comes to lunar vehicles, but are they really that technologically advanced? They always come out looking like crappy, slow, stripped down R/C cars, and have nothing remotely impressive about them. Are the atmosphere-less conditions on the moon and mars really that harsh?<br><br>cut to Jeremy Clarkson: "How hard can it be?"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[seoultrain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 1:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[They wouldn't be giving away '$20 million to anyone that can land a privately funded robot on the moon by 2012' if they could just send an R/C racer, would they?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 1:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Radiation is the problem. If you send normal electronics up into space they're going to crash pretty fast. Cosmic radiation is pretty tricky so the added cost/difficulty is making the rover capable of withstanding it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[thanks gil, didn't think of the radiation.<br><br>and JJ, obviously getting the robot to the moon is the hard part. My question was solely concerning the robot itself.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[seoultrain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't temperature extremes be an issue too?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[theclar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 3:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[One would think that the rover part would be the no-brainer aspect of of this contest.  The getting to and landing part is really what this contest is about.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Haven't read the rules in detail, but it seems like the cost effective thing to do would be for all the competitors to pool efforts on the big expensive rocket and landing module, then let the individual rovers compete from there once landed...  It's not going to make the rocket any more complicated or expensive to carry 10 or 20 small rovers than it would be carry one.  And it certainly beats twenty individually designed rockets careening through the stratosphere hoping half of them make it to the moon...  You could even double up and have a spare ready "just in case" and still save money and effort.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Good for the Scarab! I'm glad to see so much work being done on lunar robots. Sending robots to the moon makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than W's plan for sending humans back up there by 2015.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Scarabs are six-legged beetles.  Was the design of this rover once used to be six-legged or six-wheeled?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kaztm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 3:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Good luck with that argument.<br><br>Re: VW Beetle, etc.<br><br>Creative license: Because creativity is ALWAYS in season!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strider_mt2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 3:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Humans need to be in space and dispersed as far as we can get. Period. End of story.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 5:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Red has been one of the heads at Carnegie Mellon Robotics for a while now.  Check out the Jesus robots his colleagues have created. I hope he can win the prize.<br><br><a href="http://www.robotliving.com/2007/07/20/jesus-robots/" rel="nofollow">http://www.robotliving.com/2007/07/20/jesus-robots/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you live in the vein of robotics like I do you, you would really appreciate all that "Red" has done.  I am an undergraduate Mechanical Engineer at Carnegie Mellon, with a robotics minor, and I've been privileged to work under "Red" before, see "Darpa Grand Challenge".  I am in the process of trying to join the Lunar Rover Team, so wish me luck!  "Red" is the godfather of robotics, if anyone can accomplish this feat, "Red" can.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Also, the project you linked too was not actually under the supervision of "Red", but of the Nanorobotics Laboratory.<br><br><a href="http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/waterrunner/" rel="nofollow">http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/waterrunner/</a><br><a href="http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/waterstrider/" rel="nofollow">http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/waterstrider/</a><br><br>Yea, we're pretty robot crazy here at CMU.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[Us Canadians are a drilling powerhouse.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 2:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Carnegie Mellon shows off "Scarab" lunar rover]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/carnegie-mellon-shows-off-scarab-lunar-rover/</guid><description><![CDATA[I love that this is named after the total annihilation anti-nuke vehicle...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[misterfred22]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2007 11:02PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
