To infinity... and beyond!

[denny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3013959.stm
(Students give a PC to six monkeys and monitor the output)

Paignton Zoo scientific officer Dr Amy Plowman said: "The work was interesting but had little scientific value, except to show that the 'infinite monkey' theory is flawed."

...that, and proving that presumably you don't need to understand the concept of 'infinity' to get a PhD in cleaning elephant enclosures.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

she's right it's of little scientific value, whether or not it had anything at all to do with the whole monkeys/Shakespeare theory.
The only thing it shows is that monkeys are marginally smarter than AOL users.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

As far as the scientific value of the research goes, I note their grant was from the Arts Council...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

yes. So the fact they were filming it live probably means it's some kind of experimental media piece, not scientific at all.

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Hell, the strange green gunk that grows at the bottom of three week old potnoodle pots has more intelligance than an AOL member...

[kaet.livejournal.com]

...that, and proving that presumably you don't need to understand the concept of 'infinity' to get a PhD in cleaning elephant enclosures.

... nor how to phylogenically classify bards, or they'd have found one by now.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

As soon as I saw you'd commented on this post, I was expecting it to be something about how the monkeys obviously weren't given enough PRANG! to drink while they were on their literary quest... they'd have knocked up Macbeth in a couple of days with a few crates of that inside them! *grin*