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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-27T18:22:01.000Z",
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  "textContent": "quasi-normalcy:\n\n> One thing that I didn’t buy in _Project Hail Mary_ (and I haven’t read the book, so maybe they explain this), is I don’t see how the Eridians could have clocks and interstellar travel but have no concept of relativity. Like, I can definitely imagine physics developing in a way where relativity was never theorized, but surely if you’re out in space travelling at a substantial fraction of the speed of light, you would notice it, even if you hadn’t theorized it beforehand.\n\nI mean only one survived the trip and probably had much-much better things to worry about than realizing there was somethin odd happening with time. There also wasn’t any indication this wasn’t their first interstellar travel either. If they’d gone back maybe they’d realize that time passed differently (but even then it would only be like around 15 Earth years or so difference), but by that time Grace already told them about relativity anyway",
  "title": "I mean only one survived the trip and probably had much-much better things to worry about than…"
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