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   "Doug Freyburger"  writes:   
   >> Have you ever handled one? They are not *quite* the form factor of the   
   >> modern cellphone.   
   >   
   >How old until it isn't modern.  I've handled cellphones   
   >that were huge.  Given a couple of centuries, satellite   
   >phones will be small as well, if there are still   
   >satellite phones.   
      
   What's your point? I was responding to a silly person who claims that   
   cellphones are the same thing as star trek communicators.   
      
   >> And work through a planet? *   
   >   
   >The Trek ones used sub-space transmitters not radio.  That   
   >is indistinguishable from magic but is a common SF motif.   
      
   That's what I said! *   
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