Eric Lucas

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@versacesavatgy But you have to be registered to vote for it to be counted

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@motocrossvice Scott and Aaron Plessinger are both champs in their racing series

[Danish Hussain @astrodanish]

Travis Pastrana, the greatest stuntman of our generation and the first person to EVER land a double backflip on a motorcycle, realized that the average viewer is so far below his riding skill level that they don’t even know what is and isn’t impressive in his domain.

I have no idea how much more difficult a double backflip is compared to a single backflip, or how hard a single backflip is compared to any of Evil Knievel’s jumps.

Pastrana realized that he would have to demonstrate his skillset in a domain the common viewer would be familiar with, so he added a segment to Nitro Circus where they started doing stunts on those girly little tricycles we all had when we were little kids. Seeing this video was what really blew me away. For the first time, I really got it.

Public support of science & technogy has much the same problem as Freestyle Motocross did in the early 2000’s and we should use the same solutions they came up with. I’m relatively well educated, but I have no idea what a trigger chain is or how hard it is for the LHC to do 60 million collisions (that number means nothing to me- it might as well be 600 or 6 billion).

But I can look at a robot solving a rubik’s cube and say “wow das fast”, the same way I can see a guy flipping a tricycle and say “wow he’s way cooler than i ever will be”.

In the eyes of a stuntman, the double backflip on the dirtbike may be the better trick, but it’s too far out of the public’s understanding to grasp.

Counterintuitively, it’s harder to build something that blows away the common man than it is to dazzle a specialist with specs. Only aerospace dweebs care if you make your airplane 16% more fuel efficient. But even a 10 year old can appreciate a plane going mach 5 or a rocket being caught with chopsticks.

In the context of Neuralink,
It doesn’t really matter what neat benchtop tests I’ve seen internally or how good our “bitrate” and other technical specs get, unless they translate to immensely useful devices for our users.

The only thing that actually matters is providing a safe product that users genuinely love, and making it so amazing that every fourth grader is blown away by it. Only THEN can we be proud of the engineering feats.

@TravisPastrana thanks for being an inspiration to me and millions of others, even though I may have broken a couple bones cuz of you…

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@pulpmx I always remember when moose double podiumed southwick 2009

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

Paige doesn’t have Twitter so she won’t know I’ve posted my new screensaver

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@GrindingTheTape True! Can’t be upset with 30M in the bank

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@GrindingTheTape In this situation his deal is too long. He should’ve gone for a Julio Jones type deal. 3 years, 2 guaranteed last year not guaranteed. Would allow him to reset the market twice

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

Happy 1 year babe!

[Dwain Joseph Burke @burkemade]

“Suck my dick and choke on it. I yield my time!”

-The King’s Speech

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

I have a 164 steps today and they are all going to the fridge

[Seth Everman @SethEverman]

@Grimezsz thank you for explaining i did not understand anything ❤️

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

I took a vitamin and enrolled into my company health insurance.
Time to go to sleep

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

I’m such a dumb nerd

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

Today I ate 3 snak paks in less than 4 minutes for lunch

[Aaron Taos @AARONTAOS]

“Loneliness (Stripped)” vid out now!!! While we’re in quarantine I’ll be dropping a stripped version of one of my songs recorded at the house every Wednesday this month😁

https://t.co/AA2EsIHTzq

[Paul F. Tompkins @PFTompkins]

The sound is SO SATISFYING every time

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

I only want cherry honey riccola cough drops for dinner

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@gandinga97 You sneezed for like 30 minutes straight and them Goodson sent you to the nurse cause he didn’t want you to die in his class

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

@gandinga97 I remember in robotics class you sneezed and coughed so much that I had to do the final project by myself, and I got made fun of for making a high five robot

[Eric Lucas @elucas27]

So glad it’s acceptable to only eat ice cream for the next two days since I got my wisdom tooth removed