Fwice - 4x. Once, twice, thrice, fwice.

It basically needs critical mass.

The monsters were humans trying to engineer with thr molecule, that sample of protomolecule was not bound to become the ring.

On Eros, it was let loose specifically so that it could get enough mass to do what it was going to do. Think of it like a transistor- a few transistors can get you a NAND gate, but a LOT of them can give you a processor.

Once it had the critical mass and went to Venus, it was big enough that it could assimilate whatever it wanted into itself and gain the necessary mass to form the ring.

I tend to assume malice with regards to the news. They likely dont want to drive people to his give him traffic because then they might agree with him.

The news are owned by the same billionaire class as the companies that make many products.

I’ve never had issues with it.

Works great in stellaris, factorio, baldurs gate 3, and darktide. The only game I’ve had a real issue with is elden ring where you cannot simultaneously have ultrawide enabled and be able to play online without getting banned

For that reason, I like how they are called Hand Terminals in the Expanse (books, I dont think they are referred to at all in the show)

Don’t all the advanced ways rely on JavaScript?