Maybe I missed that part, I assumed they were using orbital sensors.
The laser thing might be somewhat plausable, assuming the beam didn’t diverge too much.
And that the listenees had glass.
^:)^
Nah. In the absence of glass, you just do it off somebody’s eyeball.
Cool!
Ack! No! Do not shine lasers into anyone’s eyeball! I meant it as a joke!
And if you do, don’t try to get out of it by saying, “But I was just trying to listen in on your conversation.”
They called it an “acoustic relay” – which for all we know was some kind of lander with microphones. If so, or in the case of a laser detector, why does Hoshi have to sort thru dozens of inputs, including different languages from around the planet? Why not just pick ONE?
Shortly after this scene, I had to quit watching the show. That makes two episodes in a row I could not finish because of mounting aggravation.
Perhaps she was monitoring several locations at the same time.
Wow, you *really{/I] don’t like this show, do you?
Or maybe she was listening to someone who was flipping through the channels on TV. Or maybe, I don’t know, being a linguist, she might actually be interested in the variety of languages on the planet?