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The digital delay is meant to represent the time it takes to transmit data to Bean via ancible as his ship plunges deeper into space.

• RandallBrown 15y ago
  data via ansible is transmitted instantaneously. That's sorta the whole point of the ansible.
  • pjkundert 15y ago
    Except for the time dilation; the transmission rate appears (in Ender's frame of reference) to be on the order of bits per second, even if transmitted in gigabits per second...
    • tstegart 15y ago
      This is why I love HN
  • UnfalseDesign 15y ago
    But not when the receiver is traveling at relativistic speeds. The transmission would appear instant to those in flight but the transmission from the planet bound ansible would be drawn out so that the computer on the receiving end wouldn't get the file at a bit-rate faster than it is able to process.