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Old 07-24-13, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake
Realistically fucking speaking, is morse code a fucking back up? I find morse code fucking interesting and know where it is known but like in TF. Would that person fucking know it?
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Um...what? I couldn't understand a sentence you wrote.
I put it through the Solid Snake Google filter. Hope that helps.
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First Blood
Good example!

Helicopter, meet rock!
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I've seen a million Japanese and Hong Kong action films where a sword beats a gun or a martial arts blow overcomes someone with firearms, but now that I think of it, I can't remember one. I do recall one, SEVEN MAN ARMY, where the title band of Chinese soldiers in WWII try to fend off superior Japanese armed units with kung fu and succeed up to a point before the Japs finally come to their senses and blow them away, something they could have done at any moment in the preceding 90 minutes rather than lose so many of their men to the Chinese guys' bayonets, swords and kung fu. An all-star cast and lots of great kung fu, but completely ludicrous in all respects, like most Hong Kong movies about WWII.
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Re: movies where old technology is used to beat new technology

Terminator 2.
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Re: movies where old technology is used to beat new technology

Originally Posted by Solid Snake
Is morse code a back up for when communications are down? Would the characters that use it as the only alternative literally be learned in that, within a real life scenario? This mostly applies to military and communications people, my questions.
Ah, thanks for clarifying.

I personally have no idea. I think it's funny when it shows up in movies. It's always a character screaming about using Morse code, and how there's always someone on the other side who can decifer it. Only in the movies.
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Re: movies where old technology is used to beat new technology

Toy Story
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Revenge of the Ninja.
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Avatar - bows, arrows, and sticks totally owned soldiers in body armor, mechs, and armed with rifles.

The Last Stand - an antique weapons cache from a museum overpowers criminals with current munitions.

Demolition Man - The armory section of a museum lives up its name as Spartan and Phoenix battle it out.
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Robocop 2 and 3
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Rocky IV
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