Eric Hancock

Latter-day Saint. Married to the girl of my dreams. Patriot. Space Nerd. Tesla Fan.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

This will be a huge step forward.🥳

[Ming @tslaming]

GOOD NEWS 📰 The next big leap for Tesla FSD could be the Memory 🧠

FSD is already safe enough, but right now, it drives everyone's car exactly the same way 😳

Elon Musk just confirmed that the car will soon start remembering your specific interventions 💥

Whether it's staying in the express lane longer or taking your preferred route home, FSD is transitioning from a "one-size-fits-all" AI to a hyper-personalized system that matches your individual preferences 🔥

This feature will continue to widen the gap between FSD and other autonomous driving systems 🆒

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Few hours ago, the most powerful machine ever built came within 1 second of flight and stopped itself. 57 years to the day after Apollo 11 left for the Moon, America's next Moon rocket was pinned to the pad by the same disease that killed the Soviet Union's.

Rewind to the rocket history buried. The Soviet N1 was Moscow's answer to Apollo, a monster with 30 engines on its first stage. Its builders never once test-fired that stage as a whole, and its 1960s control system could not catch a sick engine in time to matter. It flew 4 times and died 4 times. One failure fell back onto its own pad and produced one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, 13 days before Apollo 11 lifted off. The Moon race ended in those fireballs, and for 50 years the lesson carved into aerospace read simply, never build a rocket with that many engines.

SpaceX built one with 33. The bet was never that the dead architecture was wrong. The bet was that it was 50 years early, waiting for computers fast enough to watch 33 ignitions at once and veto a launch in milliseconds.

Few hours ago the bet paid in the least cinematic way possible. Ignition began 3 seconds before liftoff, 4 engines stayed dark, and the computer killed the other 29 and held 407 feet of fueled steel on the ground. Musk posted that some of the engines did not start. Two Raptors get swapped. The next try comes early next week.

Yesterday was flight number 13.

The N1 exploded because it could not stop itself. Elon’s Starship survived because it could. Half a century of progress, compressed into one silent second in Texas.

Fireballs make headlines. Civilizations advance on the explosions that never happen. The scrub is not the failure. The scrub is actually the invention if you really think about it.

The piece works out why the ghost of the N1 haunts every 33-engine ignition. 🤔

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

Pretty impressive.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

Amazing V14.3.4 clip that @jtesla47 just sent me and asked me to share from his M3P.

What I love most about this clip is that FSD understands what needs to happen and reacts BEFORE the lead car even throws it in reverse. This is such a critical indicator that FSD isn’t just reacting to objects in its path, but actually understands what happens next before it even needs to start backing up to clear the dodge ram.

This is one of my favorite edge cases in a minute.

FSD IS THE TRUTH

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

What a legend! From my hometown!! 😎

[Ryan DePaul @RyanDePaul]

Justin Gaethje was literally in the Oval Office before his fight, looking at the actual Declaration of Independence.

Then he walked out as a 6-to-1 underdog and beat the piss out of his opponent to win the first undisputed championship of his career.

I genuinely don't care what your politics are. That's one of the coolest sequences of events I've ever seen in sports.

Am I really supposed to think this isn't awesome because people decided to make it political?

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

@SDembraski Yes! FSD can't be considered sentient until it can do this.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

❤️🇺🇸

[Dave Chadwick - Author @DChadwickAuthor]

🫡 🇺🇸

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

Just one of many plot holes.

[John Macgowan @john_macgowan]

The reason Disclosure Day isn't resonating is the whole plot revolves around using broadcast television to change the world, a concept that anyone under the age of 55 finds completely unbelievable. The movie starts with a weather woman sperging out and making weird sounds live on air and that's meant to go viral? In Australian television that's any given broadcast. In real life the network would bombard youtube with copyright take down notices, no one would ever know it happened. Then they broadcast the government secrets to the whole world on one station's rig? Why didn't they just post it online? That's never explained! It probably would have been a cool movie in 1999.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

@realKellyKnight 🎯

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

@realDrTT An LDS friend converted from Catholicism about 5 years ago. To this day, everytime he drives past the Catholic church, he crosses himself. It's important to him and I love it.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

@realDrTT If I were ever to consider switching religions, the new one would have to preach something similar to our 11th Article Of Faith. It is a non-negotiable for me.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

@LukeFHan Matt 5:11,12 "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

“Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.”

-Joseph Smith Jr.

[DBMG 🇦🇺 @dbmgreen]

@AustyUSA Model Y 3 years in a row top selling sedan in the world?

A test drive does not characterize the ownership experience in any way.

This girl is 100% correct.......

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

We Asked AI To Simulate The First Woman President And The Results Are Exactly What You Expect

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

SpaceX has a "Prime Directive". 😎🖖

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

Elon is one of a kind! 😎🤟

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@aaronburnett We strive to entertain

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

I briefly met Elder Gong once and he is an incredibly genuine and kind person who you love to be around.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

In the newest episode of the Friend to Friend series released Sunday, May 24, Elder Gerrit W. Gong, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, his wife, Susan, and the Primary General Presidency help children of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints understand the role of prophets in inviting all to come unto Christ.

“The Lord loves us. He wants us to know His truth and things that will make us happy. So, He gives us living prophets,” said Elder @GerritWGong in the broadcast titled “Prophets Guide Us to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ,” available online and on YouTube. 

“Having prophets on the earth today is evidence of God's great love for all of His children,” added Sister Gong. “They teach us what the Savior would want us to do, and they point us to Jesus Christ.”

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/lEU82z9xGo

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

The shockwaves are so powerful, that it looks like reality is being ripped apart.

For comparison, this rocket carries approximately the same amount of potential energy as the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

I love this stuff.

[Eric Hancock @ericfhancock]

What a great shot!

[Logan Pierce @_lpierce]

The future is here!