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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: {{Averted}}. The distances involved are so huge that measurements between different sites in the Solar System are measured using light-minutes, light-hours, and light-days instead.[[note]] 17,987,547 km, 1.1 billion km, and 26 billion km, respectively.[[/note]] There's also mention of archaeological evidence on Triton that a sun-like star passed by the Solar System in the distant past, but while it tore at the outer planets, it still would've been too far away to be seen as anything but a bright star from Earth or Mars and would've had no effect on the inner planets.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: The speed of light is quoted to six digits of precision as 305,040 kilometers per second. In RealLife, since 1983 (13 years before the book was written), the speed of light in a vacuum has been ''defined'' as 299,792.458 kilometers per second.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: The speed of light is quoted to six digits of precision as 305,040 kilometers per second. In RealLife, since 1983 (13 years before the book was written), the speed of light in a vacuum has been ''defined'' as 299,792.458 kilometers per second.
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: {{Averted}}. The SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale:
** {{Averted}} for the distancesinvolved involved, which are so huge that measurements between different sites in the Solar System are measured using light-minutes, light-hours, and light-days instead.[[note]] 17,987,547 km, 1.1 billion km, and 26 billion km, respectively.[[/note]] There's also mention of archaeological evidence on Triton that a sun-like star passed by the Solar System in the distant past, but while it tore at the outer planets, it still would've been too far away to be seen as anything but a bright star from Earth or Mars and would've had no effect on the inner planets.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfVelocity: ** The speed of light is quoted to six digits of precision as 305,040 kilometers per second. In RealLife, since 1983 (13 years before the book was written), the speed of light in a vacuum has been ''defined'' as 299,792.458 kilometers per second.
** {{Averted}} for the distances
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:In the end, it's revealed that the aliens were on the receiving end of this. The AIs they built [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters took over some time ago]] and now keep the descendants of their builders as pets.]]
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* ArtificialIntelligence / AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The attackers are eventually found to be these. Originally built by a race of deep-sea octopus-like creatures, they took over some time ago and now keep the descendants of their builders as pets.]]
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* ArtificialIntelligence / AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:The [[spoiler:It's revealed that the attackers are eventually found to be these. Originally built by actually pets for a race series of deep-sea octopus-like creatures, they took over highly intelligent computers, who overthrew the aliens some time ago and now keep the descendants of their builders as pets.ago.]]
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* [[FreezeRay Freeze Bomb]]: Humans had developed a devastating tool decades ago that transforms ambient energy into matter, leaving the surrounding area completely frozen. One group of survivors uses this to hide inside the Sun's atmosphere [[spoiler:and ultimately to destroy the Sun after choosing death over capture by the attackers]].
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* [[FreezeRay Freeze Bomb]]: FreezeRay: Humans had developed a devastating tool decades ago that transforms ambient energy into matter, leaving the surrounding area completely frozen. One group of survivors uses this to hide inside the Sun's atmosphere [[spoiler:and ultimately to destroy the Sun after choosing death over capture by the attackers]].
