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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: "Trekkie Communicator" Ready To Go

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3628517.stm]Click

*Being used in hospitals...not surprising.  Cool.  I agree with the article regarding this versus pagers.  I can imagine one doctor I used to work for getting a bang out of this, considering how "taken" he was with hand-held microcassette recorders of the early 1990s -- a REAL gadget fiend, that guy. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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TJohn

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Registered: 2002-08-06

Posts: 149

Re: "Trekkie Communicator" Ready To Go

But did you see one of the links on the left side of the page? 
This is not the exact headline but Patrick Stewart doesn't care too much about space exploration!  Talk about irony.

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One day...we will get to Mars and the rest of the galaxy!!  Hopefully it will be by Nuclear power!!!