# Sky Captain Morse Code Question

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 21, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-morse-code-question/220233 "2003-12-21T00:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-morse-code-question/220233/1 "2003-12-21T00:57:30Z")

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In the trailer for **Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow** there is some Morse code at the end. It is too fast for me to get, so I’m wondering if anyone else can decode it.

trailer here:  
[http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/skycaptain\_large.html](http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/skycaptain_large.html)

(you can chose a smaller size if you wish – yes, that is the Stargate music)

FYI, official website here:  
[http://www.skycaptain.com/](http://www.skycaptain.com/)

Brian  
(any movie with dirigibles and giant robots can’t be all bad)

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**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-morse-code-question/220233/2 "2003-12-21T03:56:36Z")

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I saw the preview when we went to LOTR:ROTK. My first thought was “Oh, a re-release of Metropolis, maybe?” Then I saw the giant robots.

The code is tough. It doesn’t help that I have a lot of trouble pulling code sounds out over other sounds.

Right at the very end (after the voice-over is over) it sounds to me like QRS/query/k, (morse \_ \_ . \_ ._. … …_ \_ … _._)

That would break down to “Shall I send more slowly?”(end of transmission)😃

[Q signals](http://www.wemsi.org/qsigs.html) listing.

Caveat: I’m not a code expert! Someone else may be able to do better than me.

Archergal  
N4KMX