| Practical applications include: 1. communicating with other prisoners 2. communicating with the team trying to rescue you in your sunk submarine 3. any place where you're trapped but can bang on something 4. keeping your comms secret because nobody will even know you're using morse 5. secretly communicating with others during class (I knew two sisters in high school who would jibber jabber all through class by signing letters with their hands under the desks). 6. blinking in Morse when the terrorists put you under the TV cameras for your confession 7. your radio setup can only do on/off 8. you cannot remember how smoke signals worked 9. you need to flash a lamp at the airplane who might rescue you And so on. |