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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I mean: flip phones??
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Oh for goodness sake. Do you people have no clue what a communicator is? Do you people REALLY think that the big innovative idea about a star trek communicator was that it was a box with a hinge?
It could talk to a ship in orbit with no infrastructure.
It could talk without speed-of-light delay (it was a subspace radio.)
It could be heard and let you hear over loud background noise and make voices distinguishable in a crowd (phased acoustic arrays?)
It could run for days or weeks on a charge. (or months, depending on the needs of the script)
Flip phone my aunt fanny.
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Originally Posted by crich70
And only 47 yrs now til Zefrem Chochrane is supposed to warp space.
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...quickly followed by contact with friendly aliens.