Obviously, the Rraey have some way to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, where our ships are going to skip. How do they do that?" "I don't thin… - John Scalzi

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Obviously, the Rraey have some way to predict, with a high degree of accuracy, where our ships are going to skip. How do they do that?"
"I don't think you're supposed to be able to," I said.
"That's exactly right. But they do anyway. So, quite obviously, our model of how skipping works is wrong. Theory gets thrown out the window when observation proves it isn't so. The question now is what is really going on.

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About John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and online writer.

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Birth Name: John Michael Scalzi II
Native Name: John Michael Scalzi

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Those people you saw—the realborn—are born without a plan. They’re born because biology tells humans to make more humans; but it doesn’t consider what to do with them after that. Realborn go for years without the slightest clue what they’re going to do with themselves. From what I understand, some of them never actually figure it out. They just walk through life in a daze and then fall into their graves at the end of it. Sad. And inefficient.

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