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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (515388)9/23/2009 7:46:20 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578347
 
Nope, silicon is all over the world's beaches, but it doesn't produce silicon devices with software on its own.

Paper and ink are made from natural substances too. But somehow wood pulp and natural dyes have never produced a book by accident.



To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (515388)9/23/2009 4:45:04 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Respond to of 1578347
 
You're kidding JFShepard. Spontaneously-occurring glycine is proof that life evolved from nothing?

en.wikipedia.org

I'm sure if you look at a random pattern of ASCII characters, you can eventually find a "Hello World" program written in BASIC ...

Tenchusatsu