• Steve@startrek.website
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    19 days ago

    Poor radio signal. Im not sure if these codes were designed on the same premise as the phonetic alphabet but its the only good reason I can think of. Maybe they just wanted to sound cool.

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      19 days ago

      I did a little websearching and the reasons were brevity and secrecy. This is a reasonable rationale for some of the codes, but not for ones like “acknowledged”.