Reading journal

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/world/nasa-international-space-station-retire-iss-scn/index.html - NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean
  • the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo in 2031
  • Point Nemo
    • actual name: the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area
    • is named after the submarine sailor in Jules Verne’s novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,”
    • is the point in the ocean that is farthest from land
    • is a watery grave for many other spacecraft
    • is approximately 3,000 miles off of New Zealand’s eastern coast and 2,000 miles north of Antarctica
    • More than 263 pieces of space debris had been sunk there since 1971
  • ISS
    • Launched in 2000
    • orbited 227 nautical miles above Earth with more than 200 astronauts from 19 different countries

• https://www.costcoconnection.com/september_2024/page4.html - Running a Costco warehouse

  tags | Costco Connection article on their operations

  • Costco warehouse at the Lake Stevens, Washington
    • Mornings (4 a.m. to 11 a.m.); days (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and nights (3 p.m. to 11 p.m.)
    • merchandise manager
    • general manager
    • the product will fly out the door
    • a list of “lows and outs” - “It tells what we’re really low on, and what we’re out of, and when we’re scheduled to receive more,”
    • the Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP) log
    • Day crew managers
    • “We rely on door counts every half hour,”
    • supervisors
    • Service Deli employees use door count numbers and other data to determine how many rotisserie chickens to have ready.