02-25-2009, 09:32 PM
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Gone and done
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally Posted by capnhowdy
Kim,
Sure. They are legal in all states, as long as you can provide typewriters for them.
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Someone tried the experiment.
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But after a month, the Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter "s".
Eventually the six monkeys - Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan - produced five pages of text which consisted mainly of the letter "s".
But towards the end of the experiment, their output slightly improved, with the letters A, J, L and M also appearing.
However, they failed to come up with anything that remotely resembled a word.
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per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions
The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.
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