how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
Ironic and deliciousinterspark said:how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
About that infinite monkeys thing. I think I read somewhere that a monkey with a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, will never write the complete works of Shakespeare, due to behavioral patterns. If you had a random-button-pressing machine assigned to the typewriter, it would, given an infinite amount of time, eventually have typed the complete works of Shakespeare. But not with a monkey. (Although, I suppose, in this thought experiment, the monkey is supposed to be a random-button-pressing machine.)interspark said:There are an infinite number of universes, ok maybe there aren't, but let's assume there are, that means that, somewhere out there, there's a universe where everyone's a three eyed hippy with a dog called Nigel,
You had to make this paradoxical didnt you. Now my head hurts... a lot...Aby_Z said:Somewhere, there's a universe in which there are no alternate universes.
Wait...
you dont eat the spaghetti monster, spaghetti monster eats YOU!rabidmidget said:Ironic and deliciousinterspark said:how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
Winpost is win.TiloXofXTanto said:Somewhere, somehow, there is a universe in which time travels backward and everyone is mourning the birth of their friends and the coming of the big bang.
Nonsense! The FSM is a caring, benevolent god.interspark said:you dont eat the spaghetti monster, spaghetti monster eats YOU!rabidmidget said:Ironic and deliciousinterspark said:how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
[/quote]interspark said:how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
Hey! I don't publicly insult YOUR deities![/quote]RadiusXd said:interspark said:how about a universe where the spaghetti monster is real? wow, that'd be ironicrabidmidget said:A universe where every other word is "duck"
Why? I dunno ask them.
Actually I was referring to the bit where Ford and Arthur are first rescued by the Heart of Gold:oktalist said:The first thing the Guide has to say about parallel universes is that they are not parallel. They are not parallel for the same reason that the sea is not parallel: it doesn't mean anything. The second thing the Guide has to say about parallel universes is that they are not, strictly speaking, universes either.Tharwen said:Damn. I wanted a Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference...
(Typed from memory. Any errors are therefore your own problem.)
Ford was wildly excited.
'Arthur!' he said. 'This is fantastic! We've been picked up by a ship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive! This is incredible! I heard rumour about it before! They were all officially denied, but they must have done it! They've built the Improbability Drive! Arthur, this is...Arthur? What's happening?
Arthur had jammed himself against the door to the cubicle, trying to hold it closed, but it was ill-fitting. Tiny furry little hands were squeezing themselves through the cracks, their fingers were inkstained; tiny voices chattered insanely.
Arthur looked up.
'Ford,' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.'
irrelevant.Jonluw said:About that infinite monkeys thing. I think I read somewhere that a monkey with a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, will never write the complete works of Shakespeare, due to behavioral patterns. If you had a random-button-pressing machine assigned to the typewriter, it would, given an infinite amount of time, eventually have typed the complete works of Shakespeare. But not with a monkey. (Although, I suppose, in this thought experiment, the monkey is supposed to be a random-button-pressing machine.)
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I'm glad we live in that one.jwien001 said:A universe in which Duke Nukem Forever was released... oh wait.
It's not a question of how often the monkey will press the keys; the fact of the matter is that the monkey will favourize certain keys and patterns. What keys the monkey presses will never be random, and therefore, the complete works of Shakespeare will never be written.mad825 said:irrelevant.Jonluw said:About that infinite monkeys thing. I think I read somewhere that a monkey with a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, will never write the complete works of Shakespeare, due to behavioral patterns. If you had a random-button-pressing machine assigned to the typewriter, it would, given an infinite amount of time, eventually have typed the complete works of Shakespeare. But not with a monkey. (Although, I suppose, in this thought experiment, the monkey is supposed to be a random-button-pressing machine.)
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so long as it's possible (no matter how unlikely) a money can use typewriter then that's all it needs.
an infinite amount of time is limitless, right? therefore even if the monkey press one key a century it's still possible if fact we can also say that the monkey has typed every single piece of literature to this date.