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It's those pesky aliens.
Centuries ago, they surrounded the planet with a giant holographic array. It displays images of the sky, and is carefully calibrated so that whenever we look at any extraterrestrial object, the light that we think we're seeing from it is delayed by exactly the amount necessary to make us think that we're seeing it in delayed time. [This means that the aliens have gone to the extraordinary trouble of carefully adjusting every incoming photon, in order to ensure that the light we think we're seeing from every one of the moons, planets, nearby stars, space probes, and the 100,000,000,000 or so visible galaxies creates the illusion that we see in delayed time.]
They even intercept radio signals from our space probes and manned spacecraft, so as to create the same illusion. And they somehow undetectably manipulate the trajectories of all our space probes -- again, in order to create the illusion that we see in delayed time.
Pesky aliens. They like to mess with our minds.
Thank goodness Lessans saw through their nefarious schemes!
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Interesting since my father's last book (which he thought might gain more attention and get people to actually listen to what was being said) was entitled, "THIS IS AN URGENT MESSAGE FROM A VISITOR TO YOUR PLANET."