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Give those guys a phone with a keyboard and we'll see who wins then
Funny video though. I liked how the girl was so confident that text messaging would win
I found this on Wikipedia.who said morse code is digital?
Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, as a radio signal with short and long pulses or tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just two states — on and off — so it was an early form of a digital code. However, it is technically not binary, as the pause lengths are required to decode the information.
This wasn't really a fair comparison since the Morse guys were pros and the text guy was just an avenge Joe.
Notice how neither of the Morse Code guys had to look at their gear. Once guy just clicked and read and the other guy just wrote. The text sending guy keeps looking between his phone and paper on the table.
You don't need to know anything special to text, but you do for morse code, so to be even fairly accurate and quick, you'd have to be a pro.
I still think the best texter in the world next to an average "pro" Morse Code sender could not come out on top just because you receive the code in real time whereas the text is delayed by sending/receiving and opening/reading the message after it's "coded in".
It was a stunt, not a contest, and everyone must have known it. If they didn't, there must have been some sort of rehersal where it would have become obvious.EDIT: I must be pretty bored to get so involved in such a simple little goofy contest.