Not going to happen. The shareholders of the company are not interested in making great engineering products. Nor in making the next best thing. Nor in having Boeing compete with companies like BlueOrigin or SpaceX and others. They are only interested in, share value and the amount of dividends. Remember the 2008 crisis and how it was cause by Greed of shareholders and management. And how Alan Greenspan said that we should trust the banks to do the right thing
Having all of your passwords in a single software is like putting all the eggs in a basket. Yeah it is convenient. Yeah the passwords can be insanely complex so complex that no human can remember them in their memory. But at what cost?
Space is big. Unfathomably big. Majority of the amature telescopes can only see objects which emit visible light. Planet X is going to be very faint as it is expected to be about 600 AU from the sun. And the telescopes that can see it are already booked. For space based telescopes the list is even shorter and time on those is a very privileged and costly commodity. For the survey to be done and time required they simply will not be available
#planetx #space #planet
Let us not forget the cost too. How much would it take to launch on the ULA vs on the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy?
#space, #spacex, #LaunchCosts #SpaceX #spaceflight #reusablerockets
Two of my favorite and most-used apps allow me to be anywhere and point toward the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, around 26,000 light years away.
I do this any time I want to feel part of a larger and a little less solipsistic universe.
I love that Galactic Compass now has an option to show the ecliptic. Sky Guide always had it. I am usually checking them both when I do this little exercise.
YES, I WAVE AND SAY HELLO!!!
Also, "Sagittarius Ay Star" will be my walkway name, I think.
The possibility of finding life, like that exists currently on earth, will be remote. We will find live, but most probably not like us.
Astrobiologists continue to find the best biosignatures to use when searching for life in other worlds. One proposal is to search for plants that use the green pigment chlorophyll as we have on Earth. A new paper suggests that bacteria with purple pigments could thrive under a wider range of conditions than their green cousins. Current and next-generation telescopes should be looking for the emissions of purple lifeforms.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/04/search-alien-life-purple-may-be-new-green
Purple bacteria is one of the primary contenders for life that could dominate a variety of Earth-like planets orbiting different stars, and would produce a distinctive "light fingerprint," Cornell scientists report.
Age of 15.5 billion years? Wait what? Is this correct?
Was water ice presence detected or inferred on Ceres?
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