SparroHawc

Well you see, there's a simple explanation for this. When we do it, it's good, and when you do it, it's bad.

Everyone except for the people who get sent to El Salvador....

It's possible to have a poor opinion of the Chinese government without having a bigoted opinion about the Chinese people.

Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it's a butchered quote from Larry Niven's Known Space books, referred to as the "Kzinti Lesson" - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

Even if they do know, they almost certainly are buying into the 'he's a criminal and deserves to be deported' bit.

Sigh. Yet another article assuming Mangione's guilt. Ben Burgis didn't even bother to say 'allegedly' anywhere.

Technically yes, I could, but I originally wanted to slap together a dumb meme about newbies to 196 getting trapped by The Rule. When I couldn't upload the image I gave up and made this post.

......thanks, I think....

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

Even consoles these days require you to install files onto the machine before it'll play...

Agreed. I'm not likely to say it to their face... but here, I'm preaching to the choir and I can be a bit salty about it.