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   in article vf6dnbx93owEKMPeRVn-vw@comcast.com, Ken from Chicago at   
   kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net wrote on 10/25/05 3:45 PM:   
      
   >   
   > "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?   
      
   They can't transport through much solid matter though.  We don't know how   
   much, but we know 100 miles is beyond the limit.   
      
      
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