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What On Earth Is 42?

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What On Earth Is 42?

Do You Know The Answer?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7283155.stm
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It's been 30 years that Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been broadcast on BBC radio and yet its most famous mystery is still waiting to be resolved. Douglas Adams died in 2001 without revealing the meaning of "42".

Stephen Fry, a close friend, and the voice of the audiobook claims that "Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious" and "But sadly I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. Pity, because it explains so much beyond the books. It really does explain the secret of life, the universe, and everything."

So what do you think the meaning of "42" is? Have you read any of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7283155.stm
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was hopelessly lost midway through the explanation. :NOTSURE:
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
42.... The amount of seconds you will have to put your head between your legs and kiss your
ass goodbye when the world ends!! :D
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
42 also equals the sum of the numbers on a pair of dice...

Life is a crap game ;p
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
42= Pizza. 

Its tasty and life reaffirming, It is your best friend on a lonely night, It still is there in the morning and don't care about your breath, It never calls you fat or lazy, It never moves with all your stuff while your at work, It's always there (in 30 min or less) to make you happy and ever asks any thing in return.  ;)  :LOL: 
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
42= Pizza.

Its tasty and life reaffirming, It is your best friend on a lonely night, It still is there in the morning and don't care about your breath, It never calls you fat or lazy, It never moves with all your stuff while your at work, It's always there (in 30 min or less) to make you happy and ever asks any thing in return.
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omg... T.M.I... no one wants to know what you do with your pizza on a lonely night.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
rofl..  :LOL:  :LOL:  :LOL: 
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
6 * 9 = 42. Doesn't mean the question has to be in base 10 math.   Wearing my shades from the computer game... :HOT:
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

ok, im a little confused multiply six by nine? isn't that 54?? where does the 42 fall in ??
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Umm..it would mean that the Universe is a bit off and what you think is real may not be.  You obviously have not read the books or the whole humor in that would have been obvious.

Now, where did I leave my bathrobe and towel?