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* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] / [[Time Travel]]. Example: The [[Xeelee Sequence]] by Stephen Baxter implements this with [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology]].

* [[Techno Babble]]. Example: Orion's Arm implements this with such phrases as "hyperdenebola collapse" to refer to the de-assimilation that tends to happen when a colony's communications with [[The Assimilator| the Amalgamation]] are cut off. According to Wikipedia, Denebola is Beta Leonis, a star in constellation Leo about 43 light-years from Earth. What this star has to do with "hyper", "collapse", and the Amalgamation is not actually obvious.

* [[Did_Not_Do_the_Research| Inaccuracies]] that aren't, strictly speaking, about math, natural sciences, microeconomics or futurology, liberties that are not painstakingly [[Deconstructed]] or [[Reconstructed]] or [[Rule of Index| are revealed to be just too implausible by their deconstruction or reconstruction]], and [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality| breaks from reality without regard to how acceptable they are in other genres]]. Inaccuracies that are not about these topics are liable to be confused with inaccuracies that are about these topics, and hard SF is all about [[Consistency]] and [[Shown Their Work| accuracy]], so even if inaccuracies are not confused topic-wise, inaccuracies are still kind of wrong for hard SF.