The Marconi wireless, a sprawling beast of tubes and cables, blips a message of dots and dashes from Venus:
.. .-.. — …- . -.– — ..-
He tightens a bolt on his rocket, then telegraphs her back.
.. .-.. — …- . -.– — ..- – —
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I tried to run the Morse code through a decoder, but all it returned was nonsense.
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It’s real Morse code, but it seems like WordPress is changing the formatting. My three dashes (“O”) are becoming em dashes that have no equivalent in Morse.
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Here is a link to a version of the piece with the code in proper format:
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