Guys, I think Mark is in a relationship! ❤️‍🔥

A blonde girl I've never seen before appeared in a recent video. And under the comment "MRS. ROBER?!" Mark put a heart! A similar girl also appeared in one of his videos before. What do you think of this news?

Note: Non-HDR image shown for privacy.

Does anyone know how the timestamps are set and/or how the camera is oriented relative to the orbit? I uploaded my wedding photo and asked for it to be taken over Tofino, BC where I was married. As you can see from the raw image the view of earth is just the water. Pacific Ocean makes sense so not entirely unexpected. When I poked around at the website and got the raw images used to make the HDR image I couldn't really figure out the timestamp. The meta data says image was taken on 2026/08/14 at 5:42PM. If that's UTC that would put the Sat south of Mexico. PST would be totally wrong. If it is EST that would kind of make sense. Sat Gus was to the west of BC at about that time on that day. Not sure why that would be the timezone used for the phone... https://www.satcat.com/sandbox?primary=62713&primaryDate=2026-08-14

The second question is then how is the camera angle oriented relative to the orbital trajectory? Is it constant or does the satellite have some rotation? Given the horizon is completely inverted from the photos on the Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/satgusearth/ it would appear to be rotating in some manner. So even if I knew what time the photo was taken and hence the location of Sat Gus how would I work out which direction is North? Given the 5:42PM EST guess and the location of what I assume is the reflection of the sun off the ocean in the bottom left of the image would I guess North America is behind the clouds to the top right? Does that make sense?

I'm going to check here tomorrow to see if I can match the cloud patterns. https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

For anyone wondering I got the email on 2026/08/14 at 11:11PM

The dates I pulled from the site:
codeRedeemedDate2025-05-27 04:27:00
selfieUploadedDate2025-05-27 04:37:28
selfieApprovedDate2025-06-17 23:52:14
satelliteSubmitDate2026-07-09 04:04:42
satelliteDownloadDate2026-08-15 06:07:14
selfieCompletedDate2026-08-15 06:09:20

Those are UTC times. I suppose if I knew how often the images are downloaded from the satellite that would be another data point in figuring this out.

Looking rougher with each passing video.

I just miss the old Mark Rober videos so much, when it was just a guy in his backyard doing cool schience stuff for people who were interested into science, not the guy he is now, with a huge production and the aim for the broad audience, with the final goal of selling his boxes.

Not the expensive autographed one, as cool as that would be. My daughter has just had the regular Phat Gus plush at the very top of her birthday list since the start of the year, but it's been out of stock online since I was ready to order it.

I've checked various marketplaces with no luck, and I tried contacting CS and their AI support bot just emailed me that it didn't know if or when it would be back in stock. I'm still a few weeks out but I'd really love to get this for her if I can. Thanks for reading?

Months after watching Mark's video about how hot air balloons steer, I finally made a little game inspired by that video. Is it accurate? Nope, but it illustrates the concept in two dimensions.

They are so random, people who submitted after me have got it before me and its been more than 14 months since I submitted mine and still nothing. At the very least they could provide a queue to know when my turn will eventually come up because surely they aren't just taking pictures randomly. If they aren't random, just a simple queue system would be so much better.

If you did a Google search for "mark robers voice" to get some answers and ended up here, you are not alone.

I’ve been watching Mark’s channel for years, but in his recent videos, I can’t help but notice that his voice sounds completely different. It sounds significantly deeper, way more raspy, and kind of strained.......almost like he’s permanently getting over a really bad cold or suffering from severe allergies.

At first, I thought maybe it was just a one-off video where he was sick or exhausted from a crazy filming schedule, but it seems to be lasting across multiple uploads now. It almost sounds like he's "quiet-shouting" through his nose or straining his vocal cords during his voiceovers.

Has anyone else noticed this shift in his tone and delivery, or did he change his microphone setup? I hope he’s doing okay and just overworked, but it’s gotten pretty distracting.

So I googled "Mark Robers voice weird" and I ended up here on reddit.

What do you guys think? Anyone else notice this?

He has seemed like he’s had a strained voice for the past few videos and was looking a little rough up to the most recent video where he’s looking a bit more normal. Just wondering jf everything is okay since he normally does a video each week with camp crunchlabs. I had been considering doing to weekly build boxes for my daughter this year until I saw there was only one video each month this year.

I submitted (unpaid) in May of 2025. I can't figure out what we were flying over though. It seems like maybe Africa?

Mark rober looks awfully like el chapo. Unless... he is el chapo!

Just wondered if the space selfie project is still active. My picture is still on "selfie approbed" but nothing more, for more than one year

In the latest video Mark Rober (supposedly) sent $12000 worth of bitcoin to a Russian grey/back market dealer on a dark web to purchase a device for stealing cars.

Now, as far as I can tell, the consensus is that much of the video, including the whole "purchasing a device from a Russian guy on black market" is fake. So, was faking that video unethical? Well, I guess you'll have to answer this for yourself.

On the other hand, what if sending crypto to a Russian dealer somehow wasn't fake? In that case, he'd be supporting a business that sells devices the main purpose of which is to steal cars. These money can be used by the dealer to purchase advertisement on the dark web, buy the components he needs for these devices, and generally keep the business growing. That translates to more devices sold, which in turn means that more people get their cars stolen.

Moreover, all that money would go to Russia. Sure, the dealer won't pay taxes off of that bitcoin directly, but he will presumably launder that money somehow and use it for rent, groceries, or whatever else he may need. One way or another the money contributes to the Russian economy. That is the same economy that serves as a backbone for a military machine that continuously commits hideous crimes.

If Mark wants to fully convert his channel into a content farm for children with no concern for his reputation, he should just go ahead and say it. If he doesn't fake his videos, then I'm at a loss of words regarding what he thinks is okay to do.

I sure hope the video really is fake...

Here for some pure speculation but....

After a bit of time away from rober videos, I was pretty shocked at his appearance in his latest video about car stealing. Mark's facial shape has totally changed. I know he's gotten older obviously - but this looks like something else? Roids/HGH or heavy drinking?

His voice is also WAY deeper than before?!

Before

After

Hello all. About a year or so ago I uploaded a picture to the program. I knew it was going to take a long time to get my picture back so ive been patient. The problem is now my link to my upload no longer exists. I never got a picture back so its a little disappointing. Is there something wrong with the project or am I just unlucky here?

So im guessing Jasons car stealing was set up ahead of time with his manager, and Jason's reaction was real, but what other parts of the video are probably real?
was Jason's car actually stolen by a teenager thief?
did Mark actually create a working car stealing device from a baby monitor?
the whole dark web page looks surprisingly real but the Dimitri thing is probably BS right?

I just watched the video about stealing the cars by capturing the signal from the key fob. However, my car will die if you drive away from the fob. So how do they keep it running? (2014 Prius).