But Not for Everyone

It seems that the Trouts did not share my enthusiasm for the phone call from space.  When I told them about it, my hands clapping with glee, they looked at me like I had just crawled out of the forest of Borneo, like some poor simpleton who did not have any idea of 21st-century technology at all.

Pig-headed Girl claims these inter-galactic conversations take place, like, all the time.  Himself declared that they just use a satellite phone anyway.

Well, for someone who doesn't really understand how the regular telephone works, not really, never mind a satellite one and who tries not to think too hard about the concept of cellular communications because it makes my head hurt, the idea of someone on the ground talking, clear as a bell, to someone in space is pretty damn cool.