When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    The Mission Impossible theme, you know, the “Dun! Dun! DADA! Dun! Dun! Duhduh!” one, written in 5/4 time? That’s supposed to spell MI for Mission: Impossible, in Morse code. --.. dash dash dot dot, MI. The first two notes are dotted quarter notes, 1.5 beats each for a total of 3 beats, then two quarter notes for each dot, total of 2 beats, grand total of 5 beats per measure. 5/4 time.

    FIND A PRACTICAL USE FOR THAT SHIT.

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      15 hours ago

      Hey! Same for Rush’s YYZ. The morse code for Y-Y-Z (the airport code for the Toronto airport where the band no doubt spent a lot of time) is --.- --.- --… which is a rhythmic motif that appears a bunch in the song in some ungodly meter I don’t care to look up right now.

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        8 hours ago

        So, I don’t know if it did it on your end, the reason why I put my morse code in a code block is it expanded the two dots into three. Don’t know if it does it on all UIs but on my end it made your Z into dash dash dot dot dot.

        He says, as if it matters.