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Well, we know from Gravity Probe B that rotating massive objects do drag space-time around them (this is called Lorentz frame-dragging IIRC), so icekatze's suggestion about a black hole distorting space-time to prevent jumps is probably right on the mark. If the black hole spins fast enough, then it...

Onboard-diagnosis-systems and repairdrones? You can go two ways with such a system: pre-programmed or AI. Pre-programmed systems are probably easier to develop, but there's always the chance of running into that one scenario that nobody thought of, making the pre-programmed diagnosis and repair use...

nothing in the story has even hinted at this possibility or even a reason why. sure we know humans are invisible to loroi far seers but there should be no way for the bug to know this. So at this point humans are kind of meaningless to anyone but the people that want to disprove the Loroi clams of ...

Ohoho, somewhere out there's an Umiak who now wishes he hadn't gotten out of bed that day. Wait do Umiak have beds? Dunno about the beds. I do imagine there are a few pieces of choice invective being exercised from Umiak command chairs right now. I'd have erased my seven times table to hear what th...