Comment Use Neutrinos (Score 1) 105
If they really wanted to go scifi, they could develop neutrino communication. A beam of neutrinos can go through a light-year thick wall of lead with only a 50% loss!
"The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not Compute' -- I forget which." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982