The Diceman-Ochoa effect is a technique of artificially creating temporary folded space carrier-paths through use of high-NRG temporal-spatial distortion and patterning response. According to Ochoa-Brendyne Corporation, unstable folds ("portals") created using this effect have a sixty-to-seventy-percent probability of opening to an exact coordinate path, and a ninety-eight percent probability of opening within range of the desired path; the two-percent failure rate has, to date, caused fifteen casualities and eight "lost in space" missing persons events. Some external observers have reported much lower success figures and higher failure rates.
The main drawback of the Diceman-Ochoa effect is the extremely high energy demand (in addition to the massive number of stability and coordinate calculations) necessary to safely open a temporary portal. Exact coordinate calcuations require computational power orders of magnitude beyond the capacities of most conventional systems.