Elderly Couple Escapes Facility Thanks to Morse Code Skills

[Robert59]

Husband and wife with dementia, Alzheimer's were found on street 2 blocks from assisted living unit.
https://www.newser.com/story/305661/elderly-couple-escapes-facility-thanks-to-morse-code-skills.html

 

[tbeltrans]

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See, morse code is good for something!

Tony

 

[SetWave]

It has bothered me for years since Morse Code was abolished with the thinking that "modern" technology made for more efficient communications. Personally, I will continue to use smoke signals.

 

[MarciKS]

LOL! Sneaky little things. You'd be surprised at the trouble the residents can get themselves into in a nursing home. We had a fella that was constantly trying to get out. One day a visitor thought he was a visitor and let him out.

We had another that liked to hop on the mobility scooter for visitors and take off down the halls.

One lady with Alzheimer's booked past the kitchen I worked in one day and had I not seen her she'd have been gone. Teddy bear and all.

Another lady managed to get her door shut and blocked with something and the maintenance guys had to break in through her window. LOL!

 

[Murrmurr]

Isn't it interesting that they'll forget their own son's face or whatever but they'll remember stuff like Morse Code.
Probably they do remember their kids' faces, they just remember them much younger and on a person who's a lot shorter.

 

[horseless carriage]

Personally, I will continue to use smoke signals.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716 is the self-proclaimed inventor of the binary system. Really though, we owe the groundwork of today’s computing not to Leibniz but to the Englishman Thomas Harriot, whom Leibniz plagiarised. This plagiarism has been identified on the basis of several facts: Harriot's’s work on the binary system is earlier than Leibniz’s, Leibniz was acquainted—both directly and indirectly—with his work and Leibniz had a natural tendency to plagiarise scientific works.

All that is actually insignificant. Most native tribes of North America used smoke signals in some sort of binary way. The binary system uses just two digits: Zero & one. Computers use the system, by replacing zero & one with, pulse, no pulse. Morse uses the binary system with dots & dashes replacing zero & one. Small and large clouds of smoke, or, two different colours of smoke, achieve a similar result. The only difference that the native tribes had was that they didn't need to send smoke signals to see the medicine man.

 

[hollydolly]

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[SetWave]

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Semaphore is useful as well, Holly. All forms of communication are important to learn and become proficient at using. Gee, I remember learning Morse Code as a kid. It was fun.

 

[hollydolly]

Semaphore is useful as well, Holly. All forms of communication are important to learn and become proficient at using. Gee, I remember learning Morse Code as a kid. It was fun.

LOL>.I don't know anyone else except my girl guide buddies..( where are they now)... and of course my ex naval Petty Officer husband who ever used semaphore.. and then not in real life..