Roundup of thoughts

Here's a # wenhop update for @boeingspace # Starliner launching on an # ULAAtlasV N.E.T. April 2023 to test the system prior to regular flights with crew to the # ISS NASA Commercial Crew @Commercial_Crew wrote The @Boeingspace CST-100 Starliner’s crew and service modules were mated in prep for the # Starliner 's Crew Flight Test (CFT) launch of @NASAAstronauts to the @Space_Station later this year! Learn more about this mission here: https://go.nasa.gov/3Wz4Vbq See more on this #CommercialCrew deal by Eric Berger @SciGuySpace here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/nasa-will-pay-boeing-more-than-twice-as-much-as-spacex-for-crew-seats/

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is rather faint, but by February 2023, it might get bright enough to be seen through binoculars. https://starwalk.space/en/news/comet-c2022e3-to-pass-earth #astronomy #comets #planetaryprotection #b612

Here's a # wenhop update for # HLV # SpaceXStarship Eric Berger aka @ sciguyspace @SciGuySpace writes Thirty days left in the year ... Much technical work remains ... SpaceX must also obtain a launch license from the FAA, which is in progress ... While it remains theoretically possible that Starship will make its orbital launch attempt in December, there is an increasing likelihood that the test flight will slip into the early part of 2023. @SpaceX # Starship https:// https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/rocket-report-sls-gets-an-excellent-report-card-canadian-companys-sexbomb/

 Check out this map and database of #traffic #roundabouts  https://roundabouts.kittelson.com/Home/Map This online inventory database of roundabouts and other circular intersections is voluntarily hosted and maintained by #Kittelson & Associates, Inc. since 1999 as a service to the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Roundabouts.

 Erika #PlanetaryDefense @_AstroErika shared:  Using 2 decades of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have created an interactive map that lets you scroll to the edge of the observable universe. You can travel from spiral galaxies to redshifted galaxies and back 13.7 billion years. See the interactive map here: https://mapoftheuniverse.net

I just learned the term “truffle pig” to describe a resourceful and relentless salesperson who manages to find opportunities on their own with no marketing resources and in markets and organizations where no one expected to find opportunities. I’ve also heard this called “pioneer sales person” or “evangelical sales person.” What’s a term you’ve heard to describe salespeople with these invaluable skills?

Technies and managers everywhere, remember to manualate before you automate What?  The Lean Startup term "manualate" or "manual-ating" is the opposite of "auto-mating". The idea is to perform the steps manually as a way to validate two important assumptions that might lead you to want to automate. First, you need to verify that someone wants to pay you for whatever it is you are automating. Test this by using manual labor to do the work behind a thin and cheap to implement veneer of front end UI. Think the Wizard of Oz, ie, "pay no attention to man behind the screen." Second, you need to verify that the processes you want to automate actually work and are optimized. Test this by manual tracking metrics on the steps and adjusting those steps to optimize the outcome. You will find that its much easier to optimize a manual process, ie, a checklist of steps, than it is to revise a process that has been automated in software. Easier, faster, cheaper, ...