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Dr. Cochran here. My 10 year old son Zefram will soon start work on it.

I appreciate the joke, but did you really name your son Zefram? That's fantastic, if true. I'm jealous.

Actually Zephan. Zephan Cochran is close to Zefram Cochrane but at least I can tell my wife I didn't name him after a Star Trek character. Maybe it is close enough get him through admissions at MIT or something... :)

Can you please try to instead tell him to just broadcast in all directions "VULKAN HIGH COMMAND WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR YOU" so they can just visit us and give us the technology to save time?

After all, clearly Star Trek the series has time traveled from the future and is aware of the Vulkans thereby satisfying the prime directive.

Won't that attract attention from other less benign entities?

In any case, it would be interesting if someone is seriously working on anything like this. I don't track current research in any related areas.

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