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Do they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats? Please tell me they do it on a park bench wearing dark glasses and trenchcoats!
A month isn’t nearly as long as ‘infinite’. Those researchers just weren’t patient enough.
Agreed. Plus the theorem doesn't say that the monkeys will write Shakespeare on the typewriter; maybe they will write it in shiit. In which case they are swiftly on the right track.
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Solution to the infinite monkey theorem: The earth will be swallowed by the sun and the last stars will eventually fade out before random chance has given the monkeys enough time to recreate Shakespeare's works. Alternatively, given infinite monkeys working in parallel: the universe will collapse in on itself due to the infinite mass.
Most likely nothing. Odds are they had an old computer and used that
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They're off to a good start! Give them a few million years, you'll see!
Someone doesn’t understand the difference between infinity and 6
'How many monkeys do we need?' 'Uh, infinity...' 'Budget will cover six. Get to work.'
The last time I encountered a macaque it hopped on my shoulders and tried to louse me. Enough said. I didn't even have lice.
Sensible macaques, We do NOT need another Complete Works of Shakespeare,
Wrong monkeys. Try another group see if it goes better. Don't let the macaques be the example for all monkeys.
Someone doesn't understand the concept of infinity. It is vaster than you can really imagine. Not only would the monkeys do the complete works of Shakespeare, but they would do so an infinite number of times. They would also do it with one typo in it an infinite number of times. They would do all variations of everything an infinite number of times. Shakespeare, Stephen King, complete gibberish, lyrics to every song imaginable...all an infinite number of times.
My mother taught typing in my very small high school. She would have laughed at this.
It's right on the tips of my fingers to write something snarky about old Bill, but Philomena Cunk did such an excellent job, I'll just stop here.
This saying is like those job interview questions where they don't really care about the question, they care about how you answer the question. The ruse: "Monkeys / typewriters / Shakespeare" The truth: "We'll find out who the true monkeys are by seeing which idiots actually believe this improbable random nonsense to be a 'fact'.
So if they’d been given an actual typewriter, watch out Shakespeare! 🤪
so what you are saying they write the complete works of shakespeare one letter at the time and they have the "s" covered? That is brilliant!
So they they found the critics, few more monkeys and they might find the writers.
In math, monkey = random chaos. My favorite math concept involving monkeys is the following: you have just stuffed a number of addressed invitations into similarly addressed envelopes. You place these in a closet where a monkey comes in, opens every envelope, mixes everything together, then restuffs all the envelope with 1 invitation each. What's the likelyhood that they stuffed X amount of letter correctly.
If they typed 5 pages of the letter S that means they taught themselves how to put paper in the machine which is nothing to sneeze at. Which they probably did as well.
I love when people use this to suggest that random chance could produce our universe. It’s funny, on paper it sounds like a worthwhile theory, in practicality you get c**p in a keyboard. Point is, no theory can disprove the reality of a designer.
Man. Joe has dysentery real bad, someone should take care of him. Wtf wants to nurse a guy through dysentery? No one that’s the problem! Wait, don’t we have a baboon around here?
I want it, how much is it, I’ll report back with my findings
That's actually not surprising to me. The main way radiation kills living organisms is via DNA Damage. The most susceptible is DNA being decoded, as unused DNA is curled up and will less likely be damaged by radiation. The faster stuff grows the more susceptible to radiation damage (that's why radiating tumors works). As a bonsai is by design being kept withing very strict growing boundaries it has a much higher chance of surviving radiation than a normal growing counterpart. Plus fact: there is a bacterial species called Deinococcus radiodurans which as you may have guessed ist extremely durable towards radiation, they do this via very good DNA repair mechanism but also low metabolism and division rates.
Y’all this is really random but it’s 11:11 and it’s also almost Christmas. So I guess make a wish
Guilty as charged. But there has been so many deaths in my life this year.
I remember this exact moment!! I thought it was so awesome, like literally awe-some lol
A $50 bet, per Snopes. For the curious, here is a list of the 50 words that appear in Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.
Aside from the hypothesis being 80 years old, little dogs living half this, and chickens also being an outlier - us having longer lifespans than 35 years is nothing to do with modern stuff. People historically lived to 60/80/90, General Cao Cao was 65 when he died in the 3rd century of a brain tumour. Lif expectancy was lower in the past but that was because of the high infant mortality rate bringing the number down, not people dropping dead in their 30s.
But, we all knew it was the genie. He's even obviously voiced by Robin Williams, the voice of the genie.
I've spent my kid's entire childhood telling other parents this, they all just think I'm an idiot. Oh well.
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Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
Thank you everyone for being so considerate and kind. It truly means the world.
This has to have been just about the worst collection of rubbish ever posted by BoredPanda.
