h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

An infinite number of scientists experimenting with an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of word processor for the infinite amount of time

This should give an infinite number of different results or, in reality, rather finite zero...

do you know 100monkeys.organization?
their MOMI@Home research is very important
you can adopt a typing monkey

I think that what would happen, inevitably, is this: As they work, the monkeys would gradually form into cohesive groups, according to their favoured literary form. The Romantics would begin to chatter less with the Structuralists and the Post Structuralists would gradually stop sharing their bananas with the Modernists. As these groups form, the scientists would struggle to maintain peace among the monkeys. Eventually a form of democratic status quo would be established. This, however would be ruined when one monkey, who has been sitting quietly in the corner all along, typing "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", would go maniac cherrywhizzled and start chucking peanuts everywhere.

sorry...I keep mixing letters SIMI@home

An infinite amount of monkeys would create an infinite number literary groups and an infinite amount of monkeys going berserk and throwing peanuts around.

An infinite number of peanuts, ?

Might get messy...

So what, do you suppose, an infinite number of researchers will create?

a infinately confussing and infinatly long, and infinatly many set of infinatly bizzare conversations/threads/entry's?

Mmmmm,yes - how about an infinite number of legs running an infinite number of nighthoovers?

this is real complex... really. How about this... just ship all of the monkeys off to a zoo and be done with the bloody thing?

peace.

Cool, an infinite amount of prime real estate where an infinite number of monkeys used to be... we'll all be rich!

Better cut the monkeys in on the deal, though- what they lack in business skills, they make up for in numerical advantage.

2Legs wrote above:

'What is the bit hastle with trying to get an infinite no of monkeys to rewrite the complete works of this Bill Guy, I could train a University Student to read and type well enough to retype it...
Surely the interesting thing would be all the new stuff they wrote?'

*Orcus notes the vast numbers of researchers on h2g2 and begins to understand for the first time the 'Grand Strategy' of the Italics*

Anyhow, wasn't it typewriters the monkeys should be given? If they were all given word processors there would just be an infinite number of smashed computers due to infinite occurrences of that damn paperclip!

If they get hold of an infinite number of lawyers...

Now there's a scary thought.

infinite number of h2g2 research sounds good

me is smarter than monkey, but like to monkeyaround

An infinite number of ultra fast internet connections

Good idea, sell the minkeys and the infinate space and spend the money on an infinate amount of PCs for the infinate amount of h2g2 researchers. And there would still be an infinate amount of money left over.

and let us not forget the infinate number of connections and servers making an infinatly fast access to the net, and especially H2G2