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Originally Posted by Extravoice
Where do I get one of those "life signs" detectors?
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Yeah. I'd like to see this in Star Trek:
Navigator: Captain, we just arrived at an uncharted star system six seconds ago. There are seven planets, only one is inhabited with intelligent life.
Captain: Amazing what our scanners can detect. Wait . . . seven planets? What about planetoids?
Navigator: Oh sure, there's
thousands of those, but they're too small to be considered planets.
First Officer: Who says?
Science Officer: Agreed. The inhabited "planet," as you call it, is actually a moon of a gas giant.
Security Officer: That's no moon! It's a--
Captain: Come, come, this is no time to be debating the definition of a planet. Navigator, take us into orbit around the inhabited body.
Navigator: Um, okay, but it's a water planet surrounded by a ten-kilometer crust of ice. The intelligent life is a water-based species akin to whales.
First Officer: How do you know they're intelligent?
Science Officer: I'm picking up some strange radio broadcasts from there. Are our replicators set up for mass-producing krill?