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The question that everyone has been dying to know has been answered. Finally! What will scientists study next?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

it is also somewhat misleading

...what? No it isn't. Restricting the premise from infinite to any finite amount of time completely negates it. That doesn't prove it's "misleading", it proves anyone that thinks it does has no idea what they're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

They are, however, exceptionally adept at political speechwriting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

In other news, exponents make things big.

Any time you have an X>1 and a big n, X^n gets huge.

X=26 (if we ignore punctuation, spaces, and capitalization).
N=130,000

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not with a typewriter, though.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The author is so stupid, the monkey will of old age long before the universe ends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But first he will accidentally the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Has He Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

If a tree folds in the forest and there's no one there to hear it does it make a sound?

For this experiment scientists recruited Gilbert, no one really pays much attention to him, and it's assumed the universe won't either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

This must be a very important question to whoever keeps funding these studies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Their assumptions must be wrong. They do not account for the most basic principle of the universe, "the show must go on."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Use infinite monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As such, we have to conclude that Shakespeare himself inadvertently provided the answer as to whether monkey labour could meaningfully be a replacement for human endeavour as a source of scholarship or creativity. To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No”.

Stealing this to be annoying with

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Alright then. 2 monkeys... 3? 4? The answer has to be a number lol.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Let's use our braincells to fix real problems first. Like pants that don't stretch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago
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