Cool trick

I tasked the UMBRA-10 satellite over LC-39B to capture SLS on the pad.

The capture lasted 33 seconds (2026-01-20 04:20:43 - 4:21:16 UTC) so here it is turned into a short video.

Gorgeous

Russia Launches Domestic Starlink Rival: "Zorky" Set for Serial Production in 2026 Russia challenges Starlink: "Zorky" terminals enter serial production in 2026, satellites by 2027. Sovereign broadband eyes remote regions and BRICS allies.

Zorky? do you even hear yourself???

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This is trying to solve a problem that no one has. How much statistical weight do insurers even place on a mission-ending debris strike?

Story of my life

Absolutely wild statement

Inbox zero achieved 🧘‍♂️

LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event

the IQ bell curve meme but for wearing a suit at conferences

a big part of parenting is driving different places to walk around

New York City as captured by a KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite in 1974 and Maxar/Vantor ~45 years later.

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Idk who needs to hear this, but "every presentation should have a BLUF" means more than "the second slide should be titled 'BLUF'"

We don't spend nearly enough time as a society complaining about the adhesive being used to seal prepackaged soups. Why are we being forced to cut the film??? There's a tab indicating it can be pulled off, but it's a skeuomorph now!!!

Yikes, just caught myself thinking about the roadmap for developing this mac and cheese I'm cooking for my daughter... might be time to take it easy for a bit

Oh wow

Early humans were online an hour, maybe two hours, per day

extremely true in my experience

Do it

Spotify suggested a song for me and it took me two listens to even SUSPECT it was AI generated (it was). Devastated.

The identity monitoring service people got because of the OPM hack is expiring, which makes sense, since it's been 10 years and China has probably forgotten about all the data it stole. Glad that threat is over!

I think we're good on web-based satellite orbit visualization tools everybody. We don't need any more. Thanks.

Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"

Even though I rarely use STK these days I still crack jokes about it being slow. I figured that was becoming an outdated reference, because surely they've improved it since then, but I just hopped in and MY GOD it's worse. Reminiscent of the last days of Internet Explorer - borderline unusable

No! But they had such a compelling concept! bsky.app/profile/binz...

A pumpkin that has been molded into the shape of a face

mfw it's the spooky season

Good assumption, sounds like you're good. I've also talked with other hiring managers who totally ignore cover letters, so 🤷‍♂️

Just a basic explanation of why you're a fit for the position. Not including one is basically saying "my resume speaks for itself", which is almost never true

As someone who has done a lot of hiring over the past year, I took a lack of cover letter as a strong negative signal.

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