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  • Logically speaking, with infinite stars, infinite planets, infinite universes, you will also

  • have infinite possibilities.

  • The so-called infinite monkey theorem has its roots in Aristotle's attempts to illustrate

  • the perils of thinking about infinity.1

  • Ask a monkey to type, or ask an infinite number of monkeys to type, for an infinite amount

  • of time. You're sure to get a lot of random letters.

  • But there is a chance, however small, that somewhere, some how, you'll get the full text

  • of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  • It's clearly absurd.

  • 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Logically speaking, with infinite stars, infinite planets, infinite universes, you will also

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