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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Prefix numbers, or how to destroy a
Message-ID: <305@tilt.FUN>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 13:00:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.305
Posted: Tue Jun  4 13:00:25 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 03:32:25 EDT
References: <297@tilt.UUCP> <16200039@haddock.UUCP>
Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <16200039@haddock.UUCP> jimc@haddock.UUCP writes:
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>Observant!  But there might be more complications than the 
>lower_shields().  There is the question of what frequency to use 
>in the code transmission.

Oh, come on now! What does the startrek universe have to do with *frequencies*?
Haven't you noticed that whenever the Enterprise encountered an alien
starship, they first thing they did was to try and convey them their peaceful
intentions over the radio (or whatever)? Sure, Uhura did open "all hailing
frequencies", but what are they? Some frequencies assigned by the federation's
equivalent of FCC for hailing purposes? Not likely! Why should the aliens use
the same frequencies? What probably happened was that they sent their messages
in a continuous band of the spectrum. Now, if they could transmit a greeting
message this way, they could probably transmit other information as well.
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	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)