Looks like the crux of it was related to concerns about the batteries. Boeing thinks they are safe, NASA doesn't.

>Boeing software engineers are running tests with Starliner's manual flight system used as a backup in case the spacecraft's automated flight software fails, Stich said.
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>A Boeing spokesman said the focus for that testing is for "added redundancy in cases of emergency."
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>Deliberations about mission-critical lithium ion batteries and the low chance they overheat while the spacecraft is docked to the station also took more time than expected, Stich said.
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>In a recent pre-flight technical meeting with Boeing and NASA officials, the space station's chief safety officer and representatives from NASA's astronaut office disagreed with Boeing's plans to proceed with the mission citing concerns over the batteries, according to a person who attended the meetings.
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>But those NASA officials eventually agreed with Boeing and others at the federal space agency that the chances of a battery mishap that would endanger the crew were low, said the person who requested anonymity to discuss preflight deliberations.
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>Boeing also is weighing battery redesigns and a plan to add shielding in case one overheats, Stich said. SpaceX, which has already flown seven crewed missions for NASA since 2020, redesigned its spacecraft's batteries at one point, he said.

I mean Musk aside shit talking your private companies boss or CEO publicly on social media is a good way to get yourself fired period. Doesn't matter where you work.

That is keeping a job 101.

No, orbital crap would burn up on reentry to smash into the ground.

I'm actually a little concerned at the number of shoot downs and the fact the authorities can't even say what some of the stuff they are shooting down is.

For the ones they can identify as Chinese balloons or whatever, that is one thing.

But for the other stuff I'd generally freaking hope you know what you are firing at before you launch a missile at something.

Historically, the shoot first and ask questions later approach often has eventually lead to some tragic results.

She doesn't have full control. She is the Chief Operating Officer.

Elon still is Chief Technology Officer and CEO, he owns SpaceX. At the end of the day she answers directly to Musk.

You can technically rent telescope time at some observatories.

I don't see why this couldn't be done though. With EAA and like stacking being a thing now people should be able to live stream their camera feeds if they really want to.

I suppose I could try it one night.

Maybe that is the standard universal friendship greeting of intelligent life in the universe.

I think the big deal with this one is they were able to resolve down to the individual stars.

If you take a pic of M31 you'll capture the core and discs around it but you won't be able to resolve down to individual stars unless you've got some pretty expensive optics.

You can look up anytime you want. No one is stopping you. You can even buy a telescope if you want.

Science. Astrophysicists can use the telescopes to learn how the universe actually works and refine theories. Telescopes are expensive and complicated to put in space and they can make better use of those then we can.

For just public interest telescopes on earth will do just fine if you setup the right equipment. Some of the newer automated one can do the entire process from image acquisition to stacking and auto post-processing live.

You can see them live but there is a delay.

You can run 300s exposure in NINA and it will auto-stretch it as soon as its complete. It sort of feeds as a slideshow.

It won't look as good as a fully stacked and processed image but you still can get a good look at a lot of the targets out there. Especially anything lower magnitude.

They have better uses for telescopes in space like research.

If you really wanted to do that place a dozen or so telescopes around the world and have them live feed their auto-stretch target data to a website.

130,000ly is around the length of M31 or something like that.

I thought this was already proven as a yes to some degree with extreme mass objects bending spacetime. In the case of two blackholes bending spacetime so badly you could be in the future and present at the same time.

Its just not practically feasible for our civilization.