While trying to make a puzzle, I set about the task of finding out if it would be possible to mine anything of interest from taking a short sentence, converting it through Morse code and then binary to get a new string of letters.
Converting letters to Morse code is fairly straight forward, but to convert that in turn to binary needs a few rules. Lets say that a dot equates to a zero and a dash equates to a one. That has a nice feel in terms of aesthetics if nothing else. Additionally, lets ignore the gaps between letters in the Morse code and instead take each word to represent its own ASCII value.
All the letters in the ASCII family start with a one and have seven bits, so taking a list of some 600 common three letter words and a further 500 common four letter words, we end up with a list of 57 potential words. Only seven of these words resulted in vowels (although two more give us the letter “Y” if we find ourselves desperate).
bat
bit
cat
dam
dew
dim
din
doe
dot
due
gin
got
gut
keg
kin
mad
mag
mar
maw
mid
mum
nag
nun
ode
ore
out
owe
tab
tap
tax
tic
tip
tug
two
yea
yen
zen
zit
date
diet
gate
gene
keen
kent
mean
mere
mine
name
need
nine
note
take
tend
term
text
tone
tune
-... / .- / -
-... / .. / -
-.-. / .- / -
-.. / .- / --
-.. / . / .--
-.. / .. / --
-.. / .. / -.
-.. / --- / .
-.. / --- / -
-.. / ..- / .
--. / .. / -.
--. / --- / -
--. / ..- / -
-.- / . / --.
-.- / .. / -.
-- / .- / -..
-- / .- / --.
-- / .- / .-.
-- / .- / .--
-- / .. / -..
-- / ..- / --
-. / .- / --.
-. / ..- / -.
--- / -.. / .
--- / .-. / .
--- / ..- / -
--- / .-- / .
- / .- / -...
- / .- / .--.
- / .- / -..-
- / .. / -.-.
- / .. / .--.
- / ..- / --.
- / .-- / ---
-.-- / . / .-
-.-- / . / -.
--.. / . / -.
--.. / .. / -
-.. / .- / - / .
-.. / .. / . / -
--. / .- / - / .
--. / . / -. / .
-.- / . / . / -.
-.- / . / -. / -
-- / . / .- / -.
-- / . / .-. / .
-- / .. / -. / .
-. / .- / -- / .
-. / . / . / -..
-. / .. / -. / .
-. / --- / - / .
- / .- / -.- / .
- / . / -. / -..
- / . / .-. / --
- / . / -..- / -
- / --- / -. / .
- / ..- / -. / .
1000011
1000001
1010011
1000111
1000011
1000011
1000010
1001110
1001111
1000010
1100010
1101111
1100011
1010110
1010010
1101100
1101110
1101010
1101011
1100100
1100111
1001110
1000110
1111000
1110100
1110011
1110110
1011000
1010110
1011001
1001010
1000110
1001110
1011111
1011001
1011010
1100010
1100001
1000110
1000001
1100110
1100100
1010010
1010101
1100110
1100100
1100100
1001110
1000100
1000100
1011110
1011010
1010100
1001011
1010011
1111100
1001100
C
A
S
G
C
C
B
N
O
B
b
o
c
V
R
l
n
j
k
d
g
N
F
x
t
s
v
X
V
Y
J
F
N
Z
Y
Z
b
a
F
A
f
d
R
U
f
d
d
N
D
D
Z
Z
T
K
S
z
L
The word “dot” is perhaps the most pleasing.
DOT is -.. / --- / - in Morse and then 1001111 in binary which is the ASCII letter “O”.
Otherwise we can make a few interesting phrases like:
Nine Mad Doe
make a terrible
DIN
-. / .. / -. / . -- / .- / -.. -.. / --- / .
1000100 1101100 1000010
and
Tip Kent Nag
because it's
FUN
- / .. / .--. -.- / . / -. / - -. / .- / --.
1000110 1010101 1001110