I'm not sure how you're getting wallpaper engine to work on Linux because it's not supported on anything other than windows.
Are you using Wallpaper Engine? If so you are likely going to keep having issues with your screen blanking while you try and use it, as it's not supported on Linux.
Yea I think "8-12 launches" is the ideal with the launches being at a steady pace (not taking into account weather, launch problems requiring delays etc.)
The article you're commenting on is about EU grocery store honey being fake
beating SLS in just tests
Technically the booster/starship combo has yet to lift the tonnage that SLS already lifted with Artemis I.
It's obvious that it'll be cheaper per ton than SLS but It's still a little early to say what level of cost savings it has until we know how many tons super heavy and starship can actually lift. (The estimate SpaceX has been giving goes down by 50 tons every year)
There's that Smarter Every Day video that says something like 8-12 (joke is that with schedule slippage it's more like 20)
Best part of this is that they just won the contract for launch services even though they still haven't proven the thing can fly without blowing up yet.
They still haven't tested it under the Artemis payload weights, either. They're testing with 17 ton payload and last year at the starship launch celebration Musk said starship is supposed to be capable of 50 ton payloads to LEO. For comparison SLS block 2 ~~can lift~~ will be able to lift 100 tons to LEO.
The Artemis HLS is supposed to be 110 tons to the lunar surface, but supposedly loaded up in like 12 launches.
I assume they're still a few years away from Starship being usable.
SpaceX is still hitting the milestones on their NASA contracts
SpaceX has missed every single HLS milestone and is the primary reason the Artemis program is delayed:
By definition, this is not a bailout or waste of taxpayer money, as it was fairly competed on the open market, and approved by the congresspeople who were voted in by the public.
SpaceX famously hired William Gerstenmaier and Kathy Luedens right after they awarded them billions for the falcon and crew capsule. They barely skated by the government's "revolving door" conflict of interest regulations because SpaceX put them on "unrelated" projects.
The contract awarded to SpaceX and Starlink under the Trump FCC was rescinded after Biden's FCC decided that they weren't meeting the requirements of the contract.
Now SpaceX is awash in newly minted federal contracts from Trump's new federal agencies and Musk's "special employee" status.
SpaceX's funding has never been "approved by congress" outside of some confirmed cabinet positions, nor has it ever been what one could call completely "fair."
"The future" is whatever the majority of young people decide it will be, regardless of it's the past or not.
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A real shitpost
Looking forward to every other country on earth advancing space exploration while America feeds SpaceX more money to blow up endangered bird sanctuaries.