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   "Ken from Chicago"  writes:   
   >> Modern cellphones are cool things, but they aren't magic. Star Trek   
   >> communicators are indistinguishable from magic. *   
   >   
   >Satellite phones.   
      
   Have you ever handled one? They are not *quite* the form factor of the   
   modern cellphone.   
      
   >The Trek communicators had more powerful transmitters while the Enterprise   
   >had greater sensors.   
      
   And work through a planet? *   
   --   
   * PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something   
          like corkscrews.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)