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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "Paul Vader"  wrote in message   
   news:11lsjt7er79lp7d@news.supernews.com...   
   > In article <1129904267.307243.189610@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   > "rick++"  wrote:   
   >>Cell phones in IM mode are pretty close to   
   >>what was an original Communicator.   
   >   
   > Say what? When did we ever see Kirk or Spock text anyone? And since when   
   > can a cellphone signal reach orbit? Or did the enterprise always drop   
   > hundreds of microcell transmitters anyplace a landing party might be?   
   >   
   > Modern cellphones are cool things, but they aren't magic. Star Trek   
   > communicators are indistinguishable from magic. *   
   > --   
   > * PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something   
   >       like corkscrews.   
      
   Satellite phones.   
      
   The Trek communicators had more powerful transmitters while the Enterprise   
   had greater sensors.   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)