Things that Blow your Mind

[Hookman]

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine and happened to get onto the subject of the 'infinite monkey' theory. The theory goes like this: If you had an infinite amount of mokneys and put them into a room with an infinite number of typewriters and gave them an infinite amount of time,they would eventually write everything in the universe that it is possible to write.

My friend could not get his head around this and spent the next 5 minutes repating the word "no" over and over again. His mind was officicialy blown! So I was wondering,I send out a message to Escapia,far and wide. What cant you get your head round?!

 

[Doktor Merkwurdigliebe]

You know, that you made 2 completely same topics, right?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.149922

Also the problem with monkeys and writers is that they would need paper, which we both know, that is not infinite.
I case, that they would write on computers, they are still limited by available space, the highest number of bits known closest to infinite is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobibit, which still gives you maximum of 1208925819614629174706176(tell your friend about this number) single letters, or digits(remember that each enter takes around 2-3 bits, and unicode symbols around 2).

 

[Jadak]

I call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

 

[SonicWaffle]

What cant you get your head round?!

Master of Orion 3

I couldn't get more than an hour into that tedious, confusing bullshit, and went back to the second game. I'll stick with my armada of gold-plated Death Stars, thankyou!

 

[Some Fella1]

Nothing that comes to mind. I'm very good at getting my head around things.... I'll edit if I think about something later....

[edit] (That was quick) How the hell George Bush Jr. got elected as the US President and stayed for so long. [/edit]

 

[SkylerRock]

I can't get my head around the fact that Russell Brand attracts women.

 

[Puzzles]

Sometimes I'll hear a song/artist for the first time, and I'll just lose it. Big smile on my face wondering how I'd been missing out, then a frown at why the hell good stuff is never popular and hence easy to find.

It happens about once a month, and I need to play that artist non stop for the next day.

 

[delet]

Illogical Logic. Logic that doesn't exist, but exists. Logic that makes no sense, yet makes perfect sense. Simply trying to comprehend the title I give to this way of thinking has destroyed some minds.

An example:
Friend: "How did he get the .32 magnum"
Me: "From the guy with the .32 magnum"
Friend: How did he take the .32 magnum from the guy with the .32 magnum?"
Me: "He shot the guy with the .32 magnum"
Friend: "With what?"
Me: "The .32 Magnum"
Friend: "But then how did he get the .32 magnum?"
Me: "He shot the guy with the .32 magnum."
Friend: " But how did he get the .32 magnum?"
Me: "From the guy with the .32 magnum."


That went on for about 15 minutes. It was awesome.

There was also another time which was a group effort, where me and 2 other people just randomly decided to call each other by different names, and we'd change up who everyone was at every second, and we'd end up making personalities for these characters, but they'd also always change. Someone else joined the party and he lost his mind. In the end he just accepted it, though.

 

[Jadak]

I call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

In call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

No, it wouldn't. That would only work if you excluded the possibility of repetition, in which case, over the course of infinity, every possible combination of words, letters, whatever, would take place.

But that isn't the case, with nothing stopping the same random crap from being generated over and over again, you're just going to get random crap, over and over again.

 

[Taerdin]

In call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

No, it wouldn't. That would only work if you excluded the possibility of repetition, in which case, over the course of infinity, every possible combination of words, letters, whatever, would take place.

But that isn't the case, with nothing stopping the same random crap from being generated over and over again, you're just going to get random crap, over and over again.

I don't think he understands what infinity means.

Something that blew my mind the other day. Apparently the US government contracts construction companies in the middle east, and a woman was gang raped by many of the workers there, and then when she implied she was going to report them they locked her in a crate for a long time. When she finally did make it back to the US she was told she couldn't sue due to the fine print in the contract.

THEN a politician tries to amend the "permission to rape" clause. Now you'd think even in a divided country like the US everyone would agree that rape is universally horrible, and if anything were to go through the process unanimously this was the amendment to do it. But apparently the final vote was 68 to 30. So 30 republicans voted FOR contracted construction workers being able to gang rape women and not be held accountable for it. Four of these republicans earlier stated when an organization known as acorn was seen to be giving advice to criminals to exploit the system, that tax payer money should not be spent to fund such a morally questionable group. So giving criminals advice is too morally questionable, but gang raping a woman and getting away with it is A-OK.

This just absolutely blew my mind on every level. If you go to comedycentral.com (for americans) or thecomedynetwork.ca I'm pretty sure you can watch the daily show from Oct 14th still and that is where I saw this. I'm still horrified to be honest.

 

[Miss Kass]

What cant you get your head round?!

The size of space. 8D In my physics class we're doing various space-related things, and the sheer size of space is just mind boggling. The size of planets, the distance they are away from each other, and the fact that there are so many galaxies still out there, close to infinite light years away. I can't comprehend such a large number.

Also the amount of atoms making up everything we see and touch and know to be real. Also dark matter. Also... well, most things in physics. This subject blows my mind.

 

[Trivun]

I call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

In call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

No, it wouldn't. That would only work if you excluded the possibility of repetition, in which case, over the course of infinity, every possible combination of words, letters, whatever, would take place.

But that isn't the case, with nothing stopping the same random crap from being generated over and over again, you're just going to get random crap, over and over again.

I'm assuming you never did Probability or Statistics? As a Mathematics student at university I did those as part of my course and we managed to prove in lectures that the Infinite Monkey idea is true. You definitely would get all possible words, not so sure about major literary works, but we showed that you can at least produce one major literary work (my lecturer seemed convinced it would be Shakespeare, for some strange reason), and we proved it again as part of a group project in the 'Modelling and Investigations' module. So I have to agree with Pararaptor there. Sorry, but the theorem is right. Simple as that.

 

[Harley Q]

I can't get my head around the fact that Russell Brand attracts women.

Maybe his effeminate (ugh spelling fail) features lure many women into a false sense of security, maybe since he won "Shagger of the year" many women want to see what all the fuss is about.

I can't get my head around the fact that my dad has a phobia of bananas and my mum has a phobia of balloons.

 

[iJosh]

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine and happened to get onto the subject of the 'infinite monkey' theory. The theory goes like this: If you had an infinite amount of mokneys and put them into a room with an infinite number of typewriters and gave them an infinite amount of time,they would eventually write everything in the universe that it is possible to write.

My friend could not get his head around this and spent the next 5 minutes repating the word "no" over and over again. His mind was officicialy blown! So I was wondering,I send out a message to Escapia,far and wide. What cant you get your head round?!

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Just so happens, I've heard this like a couple days ago. But yeah, that's mindblowing when you think about it.

Other things that would blow my mind, TNT/Dynamite. The ever expanding universe and is there a limit to how far the universe is aloud to expand? What's on the other side of the wall of expansion?

 

[Unidding]

I call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

In call bullshit on the infinite monkey theory.

Random characters will continue being random, I could make a program right not that went on an infinite loop with random letters, (which is what I'd expect of infinite monkeys) I don't care how long it was left running, it would never, ever, produce a duplicate of any significant literary work, let alone all of them.

Well, yes they would. Infinity is infinite, it goes on forever. As long as the odds of random letters coalescing into literature was more than zero, at some point the literature would have to be written.

No, it wouldn't. That would only work if you excluded the possibility of repetition, in which case, over the course of infinity, every possible combination of words, letters, whatever, would take place.

But that isn't the case, with nothing stopping the same random crap from being generated over and over again, you're just going to get random crap, over and over again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

you would get en infinite amount of crap but also an infinite amount of all the litterature in the world. that's how infinity works.

 

[cold killer pov]

In theory they could spell everything in the universe in an infinite amount of time, but the fact still remains, they are monkeys and would have little/no comprehension of what to do, so simply the odds of them spelling "onomatopoeia" for example if just as high as "pqjnfgnsaps" as they wouldnt know what they are spelling, so you would more than likely get just HELL of a lot of infinite shit. also i doubt they would be able to find the option for things such as accents to put over words like cafe (see not even i know) so lots of languages would be wrong anyway. and the fact they MIGHT spell everything in the universe or whatever you said, just take into account inifint amount of time and think how much not only earth could change but in the fact of in that much time the chance of other planets forming who would have completely different spellings (such as chinese.)

i think and hope i have understand what you have said, so you would have to get hundreds if not thousands of different type writers and such.

but they might predict the future (i joke)