In article .net, "Dwight
Stewart" writes:

"The Eternal Squire" wrote:

(snip) You could either:
1) Think of it as a SETI exercise.
CW would carry far better over
interstellar distance on microwave
frequencies than voice, RTTY, or
image. (snip)

Who would one talk to over those vast distances? We use Morse code, while
most off-world residents used Zugth code. Besides, code use elsewhere is
still declining after being dropped as a testing requirement about 6,406k
years ago.

:-)

Careful, Dwight, now you will start the morse-zugth code wars all over
again (done in this newsgroup 8,192 years ago...according to Google).

At the Interstellar Telecommunications Union (ITU) of Stardate 1928 on
the 3rd planet of Arianna Huffington IV, Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim spoke
French to the assembled delegates thereby starting an interstellar
dispute over which on-off coding was superior. [French is not an inter-
stellar language] She had used naughty French words after being
refused to use the specially-constructed Terran rest room.

The Interstellar Telecommunications Union standardized all amateur
licensing at 5 WPM (Words Per Month) of the de facto standard,
Interstellar Zugth Code. The ARRL, totally without kidney function
[they were ****ed off], has refused any comment on this serious (or
should I say Sirius?) rift in interstellar radio requirements. Even today
there is absolutely NO mention of Zugth Code on the ARRL website.

The militaries of the galactic region adoptes SubSpace Radio with
high-speed video-audio-mental data rates and gave up any thought
of going back to prehistoric Zugth (or Morse) codings. Clearly,
according to the Interstellar Amateur Radio Union, the militaries were
not fulfilling keeping up the heroic, glorious tradition of on-off codings.

After all, Interstellar Zugth Code is the "universe language" argued the
remainder of the Interstellar Telecommunications Union delegates
and morse codings are based on a minority written language of a
minority of the Interstellar Community. They were of the United
Opinion that those learning quaint morse codings were not showing
any dedication and resolve, and especially, Interest in raddio, to the
Interstellar Community.

--- from an Appendix of the Orange Catholic Bible published in 16,391,
Princess Irulan and F. Herbert, editors.