LouDiamond 1 #1 May 18, 2003 I guess someone needs to invite them to come hang with the sky clan and see how it's done style. How come everytime they do a test with s they find the dumbest ones out there? It's like they get a springer crowd of s for these tests. LONDON (May 9) - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess. 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. ``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. ``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. 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. The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance. The Plymouth experiment was funded by England's Arts Council and part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life. Phillips said the results showed that monkeys ``are not random generators. They're more complex than that. ``They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there.'' 05/09/03 12:52 EDT"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #2 May 18, 2003 Quote ``the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it. Hmmmmm....I do that EXACT same thing on a regular basis. Sounds like this.... www.astralwerks.com/basementjaxx/digital.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #3 May 18, 2003 So what you're saying is that someone donated Chuck a computer? --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #4 May 18, 2003 Quote Quote ``the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it. Hmmmmm....I do that EXACT same thing on a regular basis. Sounds like this.... www.astralwerks.com/basementjaxx/digital.html Now theres a good example of s partying, all that was missing was the redbull and vodkas and the fries"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #5 May 18, 2003 I go to that uni, and I never heard about that ..... ____________________ Say no to subliminal messages Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
