Magic radio (probably?) limited by the speed of light, messages several years old? I wonder if they realized it would take decades before they even reached the nearest star.
The male lead is dense enough that he actually generates a seriously strong gravitational field, which deflected the ball's trajectory straight towards his bespectacled (and thereby cosmically dogdeball-doomed) face.
it really stretches the suspension of disbelief to have entire groups just skip the development of cooking, one of the earliest and most essential parts of civilization, and one of the pillars of culture itself