Roundup of thoughts

 If you liked The Martian, check out Andy Weir's Lost Sols here: galactanet.com/lostsols.pdf from Andy Weir’s post

 NYTimes: Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? A team that's pursuing a proof of concept orbiting solar sunshade makes the New York Times! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/climate/sun-shade-climate-geoengineering.html

 Who thinks of the SonicFinder for Macintosh OS 7 every time their phone or computer chimes?  William Gaver was prescient and showed us the future! What's he showing us now?  https://researchgate.net/profile/William-Gaver/publication/213799409_The_SonicFinder_An_Interface_that_Uses_Auditory_Icons/links/00b4951837b639e443000000/The-SonicFinder-An-Interface-that-Uses-Auditory-Icons.pdf?origin=publication_detail #futurist

Read FastCompany - Why every founder's first hire should be a product marketer The first sentence is the key point: "As an early stage tech founder, you have one goal: Show product-market fit (PMF) as fast as possible. That’s it." Exactly right! Without PMF, every dollar you spend on development, marketing, and sales is wasted. And everyone's time is wasted. Why? Because until you can prove PMF, you don't know what sells . . .you are trusting your gut . . .and the odds are that you are wrong. Which is why you need to hire and listen to a Product Marketer: "As a seed-stage founder, you need to surround yourself with leaders unafraid to question everything. PMMs are no exception. They’re highly critical people by nature; they see the bigger picture and question assumptions. Because product marketers can readily distinguish a viable reality from a lofty aspiration, they’re not “yes people.” And your startup is better for it." Read the full article here: ht...

Here's a #wenhop update for #HLV #Ariane6 from @sciguyspace@twtr.plus "However, the inaugural flight is now scheduled for 2024." Eric Berger @SciGuySpace wrote: More confirmation that the hot fire test of the Ariane 6 rocket will (inexplicably) not be streamed live. From ESA's new FAQ source PDF here that Berger provided: https://download.esa.int/esoc/downloads/Ariane_6_test_campaign-questions_and_answers.pdf

Here's a #wenhop update for @boeingspace #Starliner launching on an #ULAAtlasV Boeing delayed the flight from ~summer 2023 to N.E.T. March 2024 @sciguyspace Eric Berger @SciGuySpace writes: Boeing's Mark Nappi says they envision Starliner being ready for a crewed launch in March 2024; but still need to work with ULA on Atlas availability and NASA on the ISS visiting vehicle schedule. So NET March, and quite possibly later.

1/ With the 212th landing of a #Falcon9 booster during the @hughesconnects #FalconHeavy Jupiter 3 mission, @SpaceX has reused or saved nearly 1,894 #MerlinEngine rocket engines (some were swapped out) Read about the SpaceX Merlin engine here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Merlin 2/ That’s astonishing and encouraging for the long imagined #spacefaring #multiplanet future of humanity. Image courtesy of SpaceX - spacex.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-02-14)