@3psboyd I believe someday we will find out exactly how easy it is to intentionally destroy a satellite, and find out several governments have possessed the ability to do this for possibly decades, and the first time someone demonstrates the ability we will all pretend to be very surprised.

@mcc Astronaut sidling up to the satellite casually and doing a double-tap with a silenced revolver

@mcc There's no sound in space but he thinks the silencer is important for the aesthetics of the deed.

@3psboyd *thinks* silencers don't actually silence the sound of the bullet, what they do is the silence the sound of escaping gases by diverting them in a way that slows them down and gives them additional exit points. for this reason, when firing a gun in space, a silencer is actually probably desirable, not because it silences sound but because it could potentially damp recoil by preventing the escaping gases from imparting momentum on you (by releasing gas 360 degrees it cancels itself out)

@mcc @3psboyd sorry my basic physics is a tad rusty but surely if the bullet fires forwards there will still be some momentum in the direction directly opposite the direction of the bullet; only the gases' momenti will cancel each other out?