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An ansible is a fictitious machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal
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communication. Typically it is depicted as a lunch-box sized object with some
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combination of microphone, speaker, keyboard and display. It can send and
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receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance
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whatsoever with no delay. Ansibles occur as plot devices in science fiction
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literature.
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