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 | | This is because the warp drive employed is vulnerable to gravity wells; that is, in the presence of a large body of mass, spacetime is curved strongly enough so that it is not safe to curve it again via a warp drive. |
 | | The best known example of this is the Infinite Improbability Drive aboard the Heart of Gold spaceship, which can move across vast distances of space nearly instantaneously by creating an infinite improbability field in which something as improbable as suddenly being in a different place is generated. |
 | | To that end, the unique choice of space propulsion drives helps to advance the books' mockery of other works of science fiction, which are equally improbable yet revealed to their audiences as possibly probable. |
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