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In 2003, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes Crested Macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon in England for a month, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website.

Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five pages consisting largely of the letter S, the lead male began by bashing the keyboard with a stone, and the monkeys continued by urinating and defecating on it.

Wild! The original seems down, but archive.org has copies: http://web.archive.org/web/20031203230517/http://www.vivaria...

Really late to the party, but I've always wanted to ask this: people say with infinite entropy every combination will occur eventually, but can't you have an infinity of gibberish?

I had to turn my lurker-cloak shield off and tip my hat to you my friend I have never heard of this! I remember my Quantum teacher introducing the concept of a one electron universe, and at the time it sounded like some 19th century type explaining that glass is a liquid, but this, my dear God... this is amazing.

Thank you kind sir.

Now combine this idea with the Heat Death of the Universe...

Here's an exciting ramble from Sean Carroll about possible Boltzmann Brains in our real universe: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/08/22/the-higg...

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