What a mystery :maybe Brevoort's pretty brain dead and not particularly meaningful as a mouthpiece to consider. Authors/editors/etc are human and pretty fucking stupid. Like me, but at least I try to figure out how this shit might interact for fun :maybe Space is empty and vast, no shit Problem is its empty, vast, and every part of it is in constant motion of some such In a static system, it'd be pretty simple to reach your target without automatic assistance across those distances as you're not confounded by moment to moment alterations of position across space and time for literally everything that exists. Our planet rotates around its axis, which revolves around the Sun, the entire star system revolves itself around the galactic core while every bit of matter that exists appears to be screaming away from each other. Even within our local Earth to Moon system, we need to account for the confounds of our planet's rotation and the Moon's orbit to not miss that 0.5 degree dot...