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Don’t they have communicators? Don’t they also have ways of sending messages wirelessly in real time, just bounded by speed of light? That’s a down-sight lot b
by dijit 1y ago
Don’t they have communicators?
Don’t they also have ways of sending messages wirelessly in real time, just bounded by speed of light? That’s a down-sight lot better than what we have now as we basically just blast radio signals in all directions at roughly the speed of light- which degrades very rapidly over distance.
I’m coloured largely by Voyager, but I don’t see any technology that we have now that they don’t have, not at the distances it would need to work at and without the infrastructure to make it work.
- marcosdumay 1y agoStar Trek has messages faster than the speed of light. And TNG and later have universal P2P communication with or without a reliable computer time-delaying it. Honestly, I don't know what the conversation is about either.
- noitpmeder 1y agoSorry, my musings were more general, not restricted to Star-Trek/... content. I mean more generally any movie in a setting within the last ~5-10 years~ to any time in the future. The fact that half the main characters / background extras / don't have their heads buried in mobile phones is by itself noticeable to me :)