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View Poll Results: Most-wanted Tech
Warp dive/hyperdrive/jump gates/whatever 2 20.00%
Tricorders (whir whir whir ) 1 10.00%
Hyposprays (the real kind, not those tanks and hoses) 0 0%
PADDs (we know they can do more than Palmpilots) 0 0%
Transporters (one that works) 2 20.00%
Replicators (tea, Earl Grey, hot) 4 40.00%
Commbadges (chirping optional) 0 0%
Lightsabres (I see your Swartz is as big as mine) 0 0%
Phasers (so we can blink them to death) 1 10.00%
Cybernetic eyes (VISORs can look tacky) 0 0%
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Old 12-18-2006, 03:26 AM
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Bubbly ice cubes are colored white.
No they're not, and neither are polar bears.

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Are you guys proposing that clear=any portion of a beam of light that hits one side can be seen on the other?
We're not proposing anything. We're stating accepted scientific definitions. Clear and colourless describe different properties. Colour is colour, but clear refers to turbidity (more specifically, the absence thereof).
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