Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Ha!
> 
> "The work was interesting but had little scientific value, except to show that
> the 'infinite monkey' theory is flawed."
> 
> I love it. Flawed, as in he thinks nobody had ever noticed that an infinite
> number of monkeys would be difficult to arrange? Or does he really think that
> infinity can be approximated by eight? And whoever said it was a theory in the
> first place? :-D

Well, let's face it, the theory really states that the probability of a 
string of random text containing the works of Shakespear approaches 
unity as the length of the string approaches infinity. Which actually 
has nothing to do with monkeys, really. Monkeys don't type statistically 
uncorrelated letters. They bash keys. The text thus far produced is 
anything but statistically random!

> Although to be honest, this wtf is probably as much lazy reporting by the BBC as
> anything said or done by those supposedly involved...

My personal favourit is the quote about this being cheaper and more 
entertaining than reality TV. ;-)

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