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True, but if the first humans on Mars were to find the complete works of Shakespeare buried under the Martian soil, it probably wouldn't be prudent to dismiss i
by jsmcgd 16y ago
True, but if the first humans on Mars were to find the complete works of Shakespeare buried under the Martian soil, it probably wouldn't be prudent to dismiss it as a cosmological fluke.
- iwwr 16y agoTrue, but try sampling the CMB for long enough and you would find a few lines of Shakespeare in some encoding somewhere.
- hugh3 16y agoHonestly, we have the statistical techniques needed to figure out whether a given pattern in the CMB is real or not. I'm no statistician, but folks that are can do this kind of thing for breakfast.
- hasenj 16y agoif you choose the encoding such that each letter in the alphabet encodes some Shakespearian paragraph, then you can find many lines of Shakespeare on this very discussion.
- huxley 16y agoNot least because of the astoundingly small number of monkeys found on Mars ...