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Re:The Last Question by TuringTest on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:30AM (#31679902)
Quite true, but that's not something unique to Asimov. Applied Phlebotinum [1] is a common device in Science Fiction whenever the science can't support a plot device required by the fiction (SF narratives are stories in the first place, after all). There's even a trope specifically for how hyperspace and subspace are used in that way.[2]

[1] https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Applied_Phlebotinu...

[2] https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Subspace_or_Hyperspace

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Re:The Last Question by thesuitonym on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:35AM (#31681693)
Why would you link the the super ad-ridden and obnoxious fandom copy of a TV Tropes article?
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Re:The Last Question by TuringTest on Thursday June 09, 2022 @12:53PM (#31683617)
Because TV Tropes has severe licensing problems[1] - most of its content originally was submitted by its editors under a CC BY-SA license, but then the site maintainer relicensed (without permission) all its database under the incompatible CC BY-NC-SA, creating a situation where its content can't be legally redistributed.

I use adblocking so I didn't notice the ads; if you prefer, you may check it[1] at AllTheTropes,[2] the initial fork that kept the content under its original legal license. Though as far as I understand it, that project migrated to Tropedia and it is no longer maintained, which is why I linked there instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes#Licensing_and_conten...

[2] https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Category:Applied_Phlebotinum

[3] https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page

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