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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 12-21-2006, 04:46 AM
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Water is the base unit because it's the building block of the universe.
No, it isn't. It's a building block of Life, but not the Universe, and not everything.

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Plus it's abundant and we can measure it's properties in repeatable experiments easily.
Many elements and compounds are abundant, and all are repeatable. Why water?
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