• Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    That really only matters at higher levels of communication, not the barebone basics that we’re talking about here. When we are referring to 1, 2, 3, etc., we’re not referring to our ASCII representations of the numbers. We’re referring to literal pulses or some kind of other countable thing. While sending what a layman would call a simple message would be difficult, the kind of simple message we are talking about is very doable.

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      It is of course possible, but we still have the decoding. In the end its all just electro magnetic waves we interpret in a certain way. Of course its possible, but maybe not as easy as someone might think.