oldest theory disproved(ot but great)

[alsih2o]

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20030509/D7QTQB000.html

 

[Crothian]

That is really funny. I liked when it was shown on the Lone Gunmen series as well.

 

[DonAdam]

They have disproven nothing.


The theory says typewriters, not computers.

 

[caudor]

Sadly, it reminds me of the office.

However, they didn't notice that one monkey in the corner writing d20 supplements

 

[Henry]

Re: oldest theory disproved

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

Much like myself if I have writer's block the night before a game session.

"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."

However, they appear fluently versed in the rare Serpent-people tongue!

A group of faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. Then, they waited.

Ah, so THAT explains Usenet.

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

Again, much like myself on a friday night.

"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.

Indicating they had recently spoken with Microsoft Technical Support.

Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in - not quite literature.

I hear the Bard wrote those very same words, right after a rather sensitive button hook accident in his later years.

 

[WayneLigon]

FUnny, I feel much like doing that to my keyboard, sometimes...

I wouldn't go so far as to call it a 'theory'; more like a supposition.

I wonder why (mainly) the one single letter; why not lots of different ones?

 

[Harlock]

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.

Sounds like my college days...

 

[Trogdor]

Well... there goes the concept of Philosophical Abstraction....

 

[willpax]

There was an interesting page that actually ran the numbers on the actual chances of randomly typing "to be or not to be, that is the question." It seems to be off line, but I had saved a version (attached here as an rtf file).

But, once again, a good find from our champion web trawler.

 

[Psion]

However, they didn't notice that one monkey in the corner writing d20 supplements

Must... resist... cheap... shot.