Top Portuguese fusion physicist shot dead at home in Boston

https://www.portugalresident.com/top-portuguese-fusion-physicist-shot-dead-at-home-in-boston/

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BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 69 pts · 247d (3 replies)

Oh shit did he discover cold fusion?

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 247d (2 replies)

Like a fool, he kept it hidden in his home refrigerator 🤦‍♂️

Apocalypteroid@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 247d

Gotta keep it cold somehow

Prikkeres@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 246d

I thought one had to hide it in one’s bra.

RagnarokOnline@programming.dev · 51 pts · 247d

Lil sus, right? Smells like a coverup

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 247d

director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Centre

verdi@feddit.org · 22 pts · 247d (4 replies)

Can't have a European hold the secrets to cold fusion... They are too left wing, for now...

mitram2@lemmy.pt · 5 pts · 246d (3 replies)

Left wing? Portugal? HA

verdi@feddit.org · 5 pts · 246d (2 replies)

Didn't they have a socialist government until a recent coup d'etat by the state's attorney?

mitram2@lemmy.pt · 2 pts · 246d (1 reply)

XD

They call themselves the socialist party, yes. But in practice they are a seen as center-left party and their implemented policies would be placed a lot of the times in the liberal spectrum (liberal as in economically liberal).

They did re-nationalize an airline in the last decade, but they have also expanded public-private partnerships significantly.

verdi@feddit.org · 8 pts · 246d

Compared to the US that shit is borderline red scare levels of CoMuNizM.

damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 246d (2 replies)

However, neighbours told local reporters they heard gunfire before alerting authorities.

What an actually completely ridiculous sentence, lol. You mean to tell me that they didn't alert authorities just for the fun of it, and heard gunshots a few hours later?

Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 245d

That’s AI journalism for ya.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 243d

No. There's another way to interpret this sentence to mean "they said they heard gunfire and then alerted the authorities". The journalist just took like creative liberty. Chill a bit.

bagsy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 246d (2 replies)

Second academic dead in 2 days. Are the fascists coming for the academics now?

zbyte64@awful.systems · 6 pts · 246d

That or the school shootings are so common the lone wolves are starting to look for more creative ways to grab headlines

Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d

Yup.

zeezee@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 246d

and this comes right as Dump announces a merger with a nuclear fusion company?

something smells very fishy...

Scolding7300@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 246d (3 replies)
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wieson@feddit.org · 16 pts · 246d

USAmerican gun nuts

hanrahan@piefed.social · 4 pts · 245d

Yes, MAGA

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 245d

We good. They will be here in 500 years.

seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 247d

The coal industry is taking more desperate steps now to keep themselves alive /j (?)

Europellinore@europe.pub · 5 pts · 245d (1 reply)

Fusion is slowly becoming more promising. The oil mafia has been actively fighting the idea that their product would become irrelevant for half a century.

blady_blah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d

Let's be realistic, fusion is way down on the list of things that "big oil" is concerned about.

SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 245d (1 reply)

It's only a matter of time before evolutionary biologists and paleontologists are found dead.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d

Heh.

rbesfe@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 246d

Considering how many Iranian nuclear scientists mossad has killed, this could be some form of payback. Just my personal tinfoil hat theory

Anonymaus@feddit.org · 3 pts · 247d

Shame

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d

Clearly he figured out cold fusion and they had to stop him Keanu

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 246d

That's not very nice

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 245d

Yeah, and we react with...protest?

Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 247d

Welp, it happens. Don't let his discoveries be hidden.

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 1 pts · 247d

Who was the one who knocked?