Are the communicators from the original Star Trek the Nextel phones of today?
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I agree, there are many many things that Star Trek used which have become true. Comunicators, voice activated computers, universal translators, just to name a few. Some of these things were just obscure at the time and have become popular as developments make producing such devices more feasable. But some things were no doubt a head of their time.
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the latest is with vocie you can call the computer and talk with speakers
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Hello?!?\n\nJolene Blalcok (T'pol)\n\nWhy?  Um... Just look...\n\n(and yes, she was a trekkie BEFORE Enterprise.)
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I glad someone is taking the initiative to have new Star Trek episodes even though they are from the old series.  I've heard that it is very good, though I haven't seen much of the original series so I've never watched it.  I probably will watch them soon, thank you for the site!
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William Shatner done many narrations for PBS TV. I loved his narrating style...and of course Star Trek. Perhaps it's one he recited on PBS at some time and it's worth a shot to try a search from that angle. If not that, try a eBay search. Good luck.
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I agree, I get tired of all that old technology.  Of course, they'll find ways to make it all advanced by sending them somewher or other.  But their tech should be even older than in the original TV series! Bah
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in the phone book!  doh!
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Communicators?  We already have walkie-talkies.\n\nPhasers?  Don't know what exactly those are.\n\nSpeech recognition?  Already have some rudimentary stuff.  Don't know how well they work though.\n\nTransporter?  I wish.  No one would ever have to waste time commuting to work.\n\nWarp drive and faster than light travel?  Theoretically possible, but perhaps a practical impossibility.  With a huge energy source (gravity of a black hole?) you could distort space-time such that relativity no longer applies (the warp drive "warps" space-time).  Could a matter-antimatter reactor do it?  I don't know.\n\nArtificial gravity?  Don't know.  Doubt it, other than little centrifugal force tricks (rotating space station).  Manipulating gravity for the warp drive would be hard enough.  Trying to somehow localize its influence to floor plating on a space ship is probably asking too much.\n\nInertial dampeners?  Nothing really fancy about this in theory.  Just need little thrusters that respond super-quickly to undesired accelerations.  There might be other tricks you could try if you've already got that warp drive.\n\nMeeting women from different planets?  I'm not convinced I haven't already.
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Captain Kirk Space trek
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Hi there:\n\nThe cell phone keyboard with the typical ABC\nis, as one answerer stated, a clone of the Alexander Graham Bell    configuration put out by Bell Laboratories, many years ago.\nAs someone stated, this crude way of using the numbers to\nget " words" was a memonic aid, so that "ASH 277" would be easier to remember, than all numbers. Since there were only a few phones, by grouping 3 or 4 numbers into a word, meant you only had to remember the last few digits, so " ROCK " would be the first area code for 999 phone numbers, and you just had to remember the last three digits.\n ( more Bell Labs trivia - did you know that the # sign is an octothorpe? This is out of a 1967 RED BOOK handbook for Bell Linemen... since then the name has been lost, and no one knows what it is called anymore, not even computer reference guides....   -- and, Alexander Bell wanted a word to sign in on a phone call CLEARLY, and searched around the world for a sound that was easy to recognize - the best he could find was the call for fishermen in foggy weather, who yelled AH - Looo, which reverberated like a fog horn and helped to prevent two sailing ships from hitting each other - He modified it a bit and invented the word " hello ", which never existed in the English language until he had all his operators use it... )\n  \n As for the QWERTY layout of the keyboard, here is a previous answer that I gave... your question is asked repeatedly on the ANSWER forum...\n\n__________________________________\n\nEarly typewriters were mechanically crude and the swing arms that\nhad the letters on the end moved 6 inches or more from a circle around\nthe center of the page. If two arms reached the same strike slot,\nthey jammed together, often bending the thin swing arms.\n\nA group of Engineers was given a typewriter by Remmington in New York, to design a jam- proof machine. Instead, the Engineers looked at a data base of the most used and least used\nletters of the English alphabet.\nThey put the most used letters on the LEFT hand, since most people are right  handed, and the most used letters on the weakest, least used fingers - note that  the letter "A" is on the baby finger on the left hand. The baby finger on the left hand was designated the weakest, most difficult to use finger, while the letter A is always abound across almost all amounts of actual typing.\nThe ploy worked, and typists who were using the common keyboard of the day, with all the letters in alphabetical order, slowed to an absoute crawl.\nRepairs of jammed keys stopped immediately.\nDVORAK was designed to improve typing, and " reportedly " quadruples the words per minute.\nRAND in England designed a keyboard with two bowls shaped to\nfit the human hand natural swing movements, so that the typist\ndoes not "reach" for top row keys and left and right keys, but\nmoves only the fingers, and unlike the old typewriters, which had\nkeys that would have to be pressed down against huge springs,\nabout one to two INCHES, the RAND keyboard had touch-screen like keys, that have no visible movement at all. The words per minute reach 2000, easily, by anyone with a bit of practice.\nToday, on a typical computer, programmers and general public are considered " good " if they can do 30 or 60 words per minute.\nSecretaries start at 120 words per minute.\nMost of the computer people I know still use two fingers, including\nsome of the fastest and best programmers, following the GIGO rule.\n(( Computers use a stack of memory, which programmers fill and recall with numbers, using either FIFO or FILO, First In, First OUT, or First in, Last Out. All early calculators like the HP65 I use, with RPN ( Reverse Polish Notiation) use FILO ). GIGO is a parody of this terminology, with Garbage In = Garbage Out. ie. Typing in huge amounts of poorly written and poorly tested program code, is not as fast as typing in well written, well tested
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The original telephone mouthpieces used a small funnel to concentrate the voice onto a thin metal diaphragm that had a metal part (pointer?) that could compress carbon bits more or less as the diaphragm vibrated.  As the carbon bits compressed and decompressed their resistance to the flow of electricity varied in proportion to the compression causing current to flow in an external wire that replicated speech as an analog.  The external wires were connected to the ear piece of the person receiving your message.  The ear piece contained an iron rod wound with many turns of very fine insulated wire forming an electromagnet.  When another very thin round diaphragm of sheet metal (attracted to magnets) was held very near the electromagnetic pole but not touching it, it vibrated in proportion to the current changes produced by the mouthpiece; producing sound waves.  A power supply (DC battery) was included in the circuit to cause current to flow.\n\nI would first try by placing the mouthpiece diaphragm horizontally over a dish of carbon bits with a pointer connected at the center of the diaphragm dipping into the carbon bits.  Gravity will hold the bits in contact with the pointer.  The carbon bits may rest on a conducting plate which is lead out of the dish using a connected insulated small diameter wire.  A second wire would be connected to the pointer or diaphragm if they both conduct electric flow.  Connect the two wires of the mouthpiece to the two wires of the ear piece including your battery in series in the circuit.  Use very small voltage by adding 1.5 volt cells in series as needed so as not to burn out the ear piece.  Experiment with the pointer and confinement of the carbon bits to optimize the rig.\n\nIncidentally, both the mouthpiece and earpiece can be made of wire coils rather than use carbon bits.  Try wiring two earphones together (without a battery) and you can talk in one and hear at the other.  Good luck.
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still waiting on it, but personally i think the next invention ( be it what ever it may be ) will further insulate society from one another like the current state of connectivity does right now. interesting isn't he, he we are on this board posting replies, when we could be outside... connecting.. with people.. and not text..
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No but I have heard of it.\n\nDon't waste a single second talking to them.  Just hang up.
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'et phone home' - et the extraterrestrial\n\n'did i do that?' - steve urkel - family matters\n\n'well goooolllleee!' - gomer pyle - the andy griffith show and gomer pyle usmc\nonly three i can think of off the top of my head
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Well I already heard that they're in the making of a computer in a watch...i know it sounds weird, but it's said to be a holograph...As for the Internet, I have no clue what will become of it..
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Do they even still HAVE phone booths?
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its the new company line, did you not get the memo\n\ndo you even have the theist decoder ring to decrypt messages off jerry farwell?