Unless the many inventions of the Swift family include FTL communications systems, their expectation of an instant, real-time response from Tom's dad, orbiting Saturn, is drastically misplaced. Saturn is 82.5 light-minutes from Earth, so any back-and-forth messaging would take almost 2.75 hours. The image of the explosion of the ship was at least 82 minutes old when the gathered audience saw it.
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