Morse Code

[AKIron]

"A signal lamp is a semaphore system using a visual signaling device, often utilizing Morse code."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore

Lamps won't work well in the daylight, at least at distance. Flags work in the day but not night. But how would you learn to signal with flags if you don't have a book about it handy? Ain't nobody got time for that.

[Eagler]

That's what ai is for...

.... .- ...- . / .- / --. .-. . .- - / -.. .- -.--

My little brother did the flags on the Carl Vinson back in the mid 80's..I still have his set..

Eagler

[AKIron]

And when all the power goes out and maybe never comes back? And electronics die in an instant? The time to prepare is before, not after.

You already know a code. Letters and numbers are code used for communication. You know their order. You know the letter A is number 1 and the letter Z is 26. Convert them to signals that can be transmitted beyond yelling or silently if needed. No reinventing the wheel here and no memorizing tables of dots and dashes or flag positions. Remember this and easily convert decimal to binary and vice versa.

32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 |

I'm refining my code. You do yours however you want, or not.

All letters start with a 1/Dash. All numbers start with a 0/dot.

01-1
010- 2
011-3
0100-4
etc....

[nrshida]

And when all the power goes out and maybe never comes back? And electronics die in an instant? The time to prepare is before, not after.

Then we surely deserve the extinction we'll have created for ourselves.

[AKIron]

Then we surely deserve the extinction we'll have created for ourselves.

"Do not go gentle into that good night".

[AKKuya]

When the power goes out, there will be a tremendous loss of life worldwide due to starvation, disease, lack of medicine, and warfare among the survivors.  Trying to survive that scenario might make worrying about a binary code not practical.

[AKIron]

I wouldn't worry about it all. Unless I needed to communicate with someone at a distance and we have no working phones/radios.

Just a little something to add to your survival knowledge that doesn't require hours of study/memorization like learning morse code will and which even if you become at expert will do you no good if the person you need to warn or get help from does not know morse.

But, go ahead and be fatalistic if preparing to survive is too much trouble. Most won't prepare at all.

[AKKuya]

8 billion people.  I won't go hungry. 

[xanax]

That's what ai is for...

.... .- ...- . / .- / --. .-. . .- - / -.. .- -.--

Same to you!

[AKIron]

8 billion people.  I won't go hungry. 

Tastes like chicken.

[AKKuya]

Tastes like chicken.

Nope.  Steak.

[AKIron]

Nope.  Steak.

Odds are you'll be served, not served.