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frenchtoaster t1_iue40yg wrote
Reply to comment by anotherSeggsOffender in ELI5: Morse code is made up of dots and dashes. How did telegraph operators keep from losing track of where one letter ended and another began? by copperdomebodhi
It shows up as a dash to me without backslash?
frenchtoaster t1_iud74bt wrote
Reply to comment by Lonely_whatever in ELI5: Morse code is made up of dots and dashes. How did telegraph operators keep from losing track of where one letter ended and another began? by copperdomebodhi
The thing with morse is that there's gaps between each letter and if you can't tell where those are you are screwed because:
.- is A . is E
- is T
frenchtoaster t1_irvxkm0 wrote
Reply to comment by FluffyTid in The vast majority of the 150-400 billion stars in the Milky Way haven't been directly detected. Alpha Centauri is the nearest known star to Sol. What is the probability that there are nearer stars that remain undiscovered? by [deleted]
The question said closest star to Sol, not to Earth. Unless you mean like the person nearest to you is you at distance zero.
frenchtoaster t1_j6cr8b5 wrote
Reply to comment by gmcgath in Crowds march through downtown Boston to protest police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis by jojenns
Cops mostly-correctly think they can kill people with impunity in general, and some of them are racist (yes, including black cops treating black civilians worse than white civilians)