[Boatanchors] OT: Morse Code in a comic book

[Bill Henderson]

or it was in a language you didn't comprehend...

 - Bill H. / va3hwa



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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Phil <ko6bb1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I was perusing a very old Mickey Mouse comic book in computer file
> format.  It caught my attention because Mickey, who is flying over the
> Amazon picks up some weak and jumbled Morse Code.  Figuring it's an
> explorer in distress they land, where they find some giant sand hills with
> holes in them.
>
> Turns out to be a giant ant hill, they're soon captured by giant ants, who
> are communicating to each other in Morse through their antennas.
>
> LOTS of Dits and Dahs are passed back and forth.  I tried to decode it,
> only to figure out that it was mostly gibberish, not at all what Mickey was
> telling Goofy was being said! Guess the cartoon writer either didn't know
> Morse, or figured nobody would take the time to decode it ;-)
>
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