@ Olly: And in looking at it again, I don't think I had it quite right. I'm going to have to dust off and re-read Jung to see how (his translators) express it.

@ Avy: Robt. Heinlein addressed this in one of his novels, where he proposes that the only practical form of communication between distant vessels and Earth would be some form of mental communication, which (again, he proposes) is instantaneous over any distance.

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