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Would someone be so kind as to explain the 42 theory please,people keep referring to it,and as usuall?

i havent got a clue!


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If you mean to ask why people keep answering that the meaning of life is "42," it's because they have read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams. In that, supposedly mouse-like creatures create a computer, Deep Thought, to answer the ultimate question of "life, the universe, and everything." The computer tells them it will take 1000 (?) years. When they finally come back for the answer, he tells them it's 42. When they get angry, he counters with, "You didn't state what the question was." So they have Earth designed to find out what the Ultimate Question is, but it's destroyed before they find out. When Earth Mach 2 is created, the two main characters decide to find out the question by randomly drawing Scrabble tiles out of a bag. So what is the Ultimate Question? "What is 6 times 7?"