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dscheidt 10-27-2007 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by younglorax
Reading Fleckenzwerg's last IC post made me wonder... is whispering ever necessary with a computer implant? Could you just have a quasi-telepathic conversation with someone if they're in range of your transmitter and accept the call?
Yes, you can do that. You can do that, while having a totally different conversation with the person out loud. You can, in fact, have a different conversation with every person in the group, while still talking out loud.

Fleckenzwerg 10-27-2007 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by dscheidt
Yes, you can do that. You can do that, while having a totally different conversation with the person out loud. You can, in fact, have a different conversation with every person in the group, while still talking out loud.
Sweet!

But woudn't having several conversations at once be very confusing? I mean, unless you have Compartmenalized Mind for some reason.

dscheidt 10-27-2007 02:33 PM
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Sweet!

But woudn't having several conversations at once be very confusing? I mean, unless you have Compartmenalized Mind for some reason.
I suspect this is really a learnable skill. I don't have any problems following a conversation that's going on in the room I'm in while I'm talking on the phone, so I forget that other people don't do this as well as I do.

younglorax 10-28-2007 05:36 AM
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If my IC post posits too much about Binf, I can edit.

Lonewulf 10-28-2007 05:39 AM
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"Inverse-synchronizing Isolinears"? I looked up Isolinears, but is the rest gobbledy-****? XD

younglorax 10-28-2007 05:49 AM
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I used an online random technobabble generator. :)

As far as I know, no part of it could actually apply to any real-world technology.

Lonewulf 10-28-2007 05:51 AM
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Oh, I beg to differ!

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The closest to real world isolinear chips/rods today is the Holographic Versatile Card. Although the technology is new, and not fully developed and/or mainstream, it is the farthest we have come to having technology close to that of modern fictional Star Trek technology (aside from cellphones/communicators).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolinear

younglorax 10-28-2007 06:08 AM
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If he looks up "Rusev" on his implant or has heard of it, it was a small multi-planet empire that was torn apart by civil war. Many of its refugees went to Caran, a two-planet empire two jumps away with very liberal refugee laws.

ETA: That war was about 8 years prior.

Lonewulf 10-28-2007 09:38 AM
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Information on the Mining Company: Considering I made it up on the spot, I'll be making this up on the spot, as well. :P

Bagley & Paine Mining Company was started by Franz Bagley and Julia Paine; it hasn't been around for long, only for about a decade. However, it's still a somewhat sizable company, although it's not able to really handle high-end contracts. It ain't no megacorp, to say the least. :)

It only has a presence on a few planets, mostly uninhabited worlds, and uses remote mining almost exclusively.

younglorax 10-28-2007 09:45 AM
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He shakes it with a smile. "Andrew Carlson". He sends her his own spelling. "Say, do you know if anything interesting is supposed to be happening on this trip?"
"Well, I hear there's a bunch of snakes/robots/aliens attacking."


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