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Typing Peace Activists Don't Write Shakespeare

by Barney Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 5:09 PM

LONDON - Give an infinite number of peace activists an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six peace activists one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.



Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that peaceniks left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."

In a project intended more as performance art than scientific experiment, faculty and students in the university's media program left a computer in the canteen at UCLA.

Then, they waited.

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.

"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.

Eventually, peace activists Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in.

The notion that peace activists typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.

The Plymouth experiment was funded by England's Arts Council and part of the Vivaria Project, which plans to install computers in zoos across Europe to study differences between animal and artificial life.

Phillips said the results showed that peace activists "are not random generators. They're more complex than that.

"They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there."

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More proof that...

by daveman Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 6:46 PM

...the Left has absolutely no sense of humor.

And I...

by daveman Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 6:47 PM

...have absolutely no intelligence.

Once again, fake guy...

by daveman Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 6:54 PM

...gets it all wrong.

IQ of 130, two different tests.

Your sense of humor seeems to have stopped evolving around the 4th grade level.

Know any good fart jokes?

Silly me...you probably know ALL of them.

for the first post

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