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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "Paul Vader"  wrote in message   
   news:11lsvcqdg9mhj9e@news.supernews.com...   
   > "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.   
      
   Neither were cell phones--in the 1980s.   
      
   >>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.   
      
   I said "more powerful".   
      
   They can TRANPORT matter THRU solid matter, how much easier to transmit   
   energy thru a planet?   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)