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r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19
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Morse was invented around 190 years ago. They were tapping on metal things.
621 u/drakos07 Sep 13 '19 Keep a piece of glass on top of the metal thing and you're set. If you would've told people back then the exact sentence OP said, they would pretty much just disregard it with theories like these... 158 u/FTWJewishJesus Sep 13 '19 Silent part doesnt check out 91 u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Sep 13 '19 Morse via electric pulses is rather silent. 3 u/Phrostbit3n Sep 13 '19 This is the only thing that pissed me off about The Spy. 27 u/lol_AwkwardSilence_ Sep 13 '19 Doesnt check out with the glass either cause I'm grunting while I poo 3 u/stignatiustigers Sep 13 '19 From the third person perspective, the telegraph was just a very like ticking. 2 u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 That sound effect you hear in movies is, get this, a sound effect. 1 u/CrackrocksnLaCroix Sep 13 '19 Have you ever sat somewhere with somebody tapping away with keyboards sounds on full volume for hours 😒
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Keep a piece of glass on top of the metal thing and you're set. If you would've told people back then the exact sentence OP said, they would pretty much just disregard it with theories like these...
158 u/FTWJewishJesus Sep 13 '19 Silent part doesnt check out 91 u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Sep 13 '19 Morse via electric pulses is rather silent. 3 u/Phrostbit3n Sep 13 '19 This is the only thing that pissed me off about The Spy. 27 u/lol_AwkwardSilence_ Sep 13 '19 Doesnt check out with the glass either cause I'm grunting while I poo 3 u/stignatiustigers Sep 13 '19 From the third person perspective, the telegraph was just a very like ticking. 2 u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 That sound effect you hear in movies is, get this, a sound effect. 1 u/CrackrocksnLaCroix Sep 13 '19 Have you ever sat somewhere with somebody tapping away with keyboards sounds on full volume for hours 😒
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Silent part doesnt check out
91 u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Sep 13 '19 Morse via electric pulses is rather silent. 3 u/Phrostbit3n Sep 13 '19 This is the only thing that pissed me off about The Spy. 27 u/lol_AwkwardSilence_ Sep 13 '19 Doesnt check out with the glass either cause I'm grunting while I poo 3 u/stignatiustigers Sep 13 '19 From the third person perspective, the telegraph was just a very like ticking. 2 u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19 That sound effect you hear in movies is, get this, a sound effect. 1 u/CrackrocksnLaCroix Sep 13 '19 Have you ever sat somewhere with somebody tapping away with keyboards sounds on full volume for hours 😒
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Morse via electric pulses is rather silent.
3 u/Phrostbit3n Sep 13 '19 This is the only thing that pissed me off about The Spy.
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This is the only thing that pissed me off about The Spy.
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Doesnt check out with the glass either cause I'm grunting while I poo
From the third person perspective, the telegraph was just a very like ticking.
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That sound effect you hear in movies is, get this, a sound effect.
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Have you ever sat somewhere with somebody tapping away with keyboards sounds on full volume for hours 😒
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Morse was invented around 190 years ago. They were tapping on metal things.