It hasn’t refuted anything because they haven’t confirmed anything. JWST is the next step to see if they can determine star / planet composition and therefore mass to see if it does still fit into our current models or not, and even then it won’t be definitive. Even the article states that it has the potential to challenge our understanding, they did not say it refutes our understanding as we do not have enough information yet to make that claim.

On earth, if the driver of your self driving bus gets too sick to operate the vehicle or gets hurt in an accident or dies, there are 100s if not 1000s of people who can readily replace them.

On Dragon, if something happens to 1 or both of the designated pilots, there are only 5 people who could replace them.

Space X Crew 7, scheduled for August 2023. The commander for the flight is Jasmine Moghbeli, it's her first flight. She will also be the first Irani-American in space.

It’s about 6’2” for pilots and about 6’4” for mission specialists now

> You know how you still need a licence and to be physically capable of driving when in a self driving vehicle because they can still fail and need you to step in?

every single person onboard of a self driving car has to have a driving license? That's not even true for regular, non self driving cars.

Space Shuttle only had 2 seats for pilots. Rest of the crew were passengers.

Dragon will be able to carry up to 7 people to orbit. They can't all be flying the spacecraft.

Every day of my life, I learn something new, that makes me realize how little I actually know.

Nowledge!

You can't have too much.

Glad I spent all of those years in high school.

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R u sure? I read at least 157cm in Google🙄🤨

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All things are possible through the Immaterium.

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Can't put in too much salt, can't put in too much plastic, can't put in too many chemicals...

Is the ocean just one big sewer?

Anyway, thanks for answering the question with science.

Yes you are right to some extent I am 153cm and always dreamed of being an astronaut. This year I want to choose engineering science but I don't know if I should follow my interests or not🥴🤦🏻‍♀️

That only means that it requires permits many.

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You know how you still need a licence and to be physically capable of driving when in a self driving vehicle because they can still fail and need you to step in? Same thing here. Except on earth if your self driving car loses control and needs you to step in but you’re unresponsive, most are designed to start slowing down and pulling to the side/parking and if they don’t pull over successfully you’ll still most likely live any accident you get into while it’s slowing down. In space, even a minute of you being unresponsive can result in you getting pulled too far into an orbit where you’ll then either crash into the celestial body or get sling-shot off into deep space. The fuel margins are also so tight that you really don’t have any extra to burn correcting coarse even if you’re not pulled into an orbit.

Astronauts have strict requirements for very good reasons. It’s one of the most dangerous jobs you could get into, right next to being in the emergency response crew for nuclear reactors.

learn from the pam tree facing storms and hurricanes yet it grows taller with patience and resilience little grasshopper

Short people are famously more affected by gravity, hence why they're shorter. The more gravity you put in a space ship, the more gas it takes to get to space. And since everybody's worried about climate change, they can't use more gas and diesel is too heavy for a space ship.

So you only have to be ~5’2”? OP must be quite tiny to see this as a big issue.

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Because you have to be this tall to ride this ride?

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Just like their equipment has specifications, so do the people.

Starship, because we get to see if it's gonna work or fail. It's important to know either way. Super excited if that damn thing lives up to the hype.