Monkeys cannot write Shakespeare after all. :)

http://www.msnbc.com/news/911508.asp?cp1=1

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

In a project intended more as performance art than scientific experiment, 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.
At first, said Phillips, “the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

 

I wonder if anyone told the monkeys just what that beige box was, or what to do with if. Someone should of gave those monkeys a computer class and showed them all of its components plus how to perform maintenance like defrag and update their anti-virus. Instead it sounds like they just put the computer in the cage and that was it. The result was Those monkeys ended up looking like monkeys. Unbelievable.

 

Obviously a Win ME system.

 

The computer was obviously linux or the monkies were used to a heavily modded machine with cathodes and rounded cables NOT pentium 133's

 

Perhaps what they typed could lead to the most amazing scientific discovery that will happen this millenium! Or maybe they typed the chemical formula of God or something, you never know

 

Re: Re: Monkeys cannot write Shakespeare after all.

hahaha, true or win98 and they couldnt sop getting the blu screen of death

obviously immensely scientific this experiemnt

 

Chumbawumba.

*n

 

Re: Re: Monkeys cannot write Shakespeare after all.

*shudders*

You wouldn't even wish that on the poor monkeys, would you?

If it was Windows ME, those inhumane beasts should be taken out and shot...

 

How can they decide that monkeys wont create a word by random ?

The theory was a million monkeys on a million computers --- not six monkeys and one computer.

Especially not a Win ME computer - if it was the monkeys should be let loose and the scientists should be put in instead.

 

I thought it was 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters? Anyway, it's not the monkeys or the typewriters that are important since you have to ignore the monkeys natural life cycle of dying and the fact that their natural impulses don't tell them to type Plus of course, you'd need maintenance monkeys to change the ribbons and distribute more paper, and breeder monkeys to keep the population up. Then there's chef monkeys. The list goes on

 

Anyway, IMO this was a total waste of time.

 

Yeh

 

Bash it with a rock, no wonder, they forgot to give the monkeys a dremel so that they would have some real tools for modding, stupid people.