Rambling about the 'net and binary numbers and other miscellaneous garbage that is interesting to me.

[mackstann]

It's just amazing, I am sitting here thinking about how, you know, all of the data on the internet, when you get right down to it, is just a bunch of 1's and 0's. People's opinions, feelings, pictures, sound, everything. It's just a bunch of on's and off's, 1's and 0's, or what have you. So that makes it theoretically possible to randomly generate all of the information on the internet. Say, just take ASCII text. You could pick a random number from 0 to 255, and it would be a letter. Well, multiply that by huge exponential amounts, and you could, in theory, pick a bunch of random numbers, and generate the internet. I wonder what the odds of that being are? Maybe one in a billion google or something rediculous like that? And, say, if you could make a machine that randomly generates petabytes upon petabytes each minute or second, or whatever, how long would it take to generate something that by chance resembles something we could understand? And what if you had enough of those machines to cover Antarctica, or the whole planet, or all of Mars, or something like that, and they were constantly generating random crap. Would they ever generate, say, a legible paragraph of english text? Or maybe they were generating random images. Would they generate images that were really pictures of aliens that we have never seen. And speaking of that, they say that there are more civilizations in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on earth. And where did everything come from anyways? The Big Bang, but supposedly before that it was a ball of matter that consisted of all the matter that is now the universe. But supposedly that ball was smaller than an atom. Wow. And what was before that? How did that ball of matter get there? Does the universe just go forever? I think infinity is truly imossible for the human mind to conceive. Yeah.

I wish I could type as fast as I can think.

 

[Czar]

Welcome to the desert of the real

 

[crazyjoekuta]

wow, can i have some of that bud? j/k... but that's like put a million monkeys at a million keyboards how long would it take for them to write shakespeare or something.

 

[mackstann]

<< wow, can i have some of that bud? >>


lol, that's funny. I am, as usual, completely sober.

Yeah, the monkey thing is the same sorta idea.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

OK so you take all these 1's and 0's and do whatever with them,can you ever make that incredibly lame show Dawsons Creek watchable???

 

[Killbat]

If you randomly generate letters, you'll eventually get a text file explaining how to achieve warp travel, in seven languages!

 

[mackstann]

^

 

[mackstann]

^?!?!?!?!

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

my killer app: I call it Internet Creator BETA 1 build 234

[edit] oops i posted the source, DON'T STEAL MY CODE OR I WILL SUE!!!! [/edit]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main( void )
{
int i;

srand(clock());

do
{
i = (rand() % 2);
printf(&quot;%d&quot;,i);
}
while(1==1);

return 0;
}

 

[Pretender]

I made mine beofre you. It was titled Internet Creater Alpha 1 Build 1. It is shorter than yours, hence was created before yours.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main( void ) {
srand(clock());
do { printf(&quot;%d&quot;,(rand() % 2)); }while(1);
return 0;
}



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