What On Earth Is 42?
Do You Know The Answer?
Saturday, March 8, 2008 by Hankers | Discussion: WinCustomize News
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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TheMasterBaron
Reply #22 Sunday, March 9, 2008 3:19 PM
Reply #22 Sunday, March 9, 2008 3:19 PM
ok, im a little confused multiply six by nine? isn't that 54?? where does the 42 fall in ??
EXACTLY!
drhoades12
Reply #23 Sunday, March 9, 2008 10:43 PM
Reply #23 Sunday, March 9, 2008 10:43 PM
I'm sorry. I misunderstood the question. Apparently my babblefish has died.
Alternate Setting
Reply #25 Monday, March 10, 2008 12:11 AM
hehe... way to be a sassy frood
Reply #25 Monday, March 10, 2008 12:11 AM
...And don't forget your towel!
hehe... way to be a sassy frood
Koasati
Reply #26 Monday, March 10, 2008 1:21 AM
Reply #26 Monday, March 10, 2008 1:21 AM
I was hopelessly lost midway through the explanation. 
Nimbin
Reply #27 Monday, March 10, 2008 1:42 AM
Reply #27 Monday, March 10, 2008 1:42 AM
42.... The amount of seconds you will have to put your head between your legs and kiss your
ass goodbye when the world ends!!
ass goodbye when the world ends!!
Alternate Setting
Reply #28 Monday, March 10, 2008 2:13 AM
Reply #28 Monday, March 10, 2008 2:13 AM
42 also equals the sum of the numbers on a pair of dice...
Life is a crap game
Life is a crap game
HG_Eliminator
Reply #29 Monday, March 10, 2008 2:28 AM
Reply #29 Monday, March 10, 2008 2:28 AM
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.
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.
DigitalCHET
Reply #30 Monday, March 10, 2008 3:30 AM
omg... T.M.I... no one wants to know what you do with your pizza on a lonely night.
Reply #30 Monday, March 10, 2008 3:30 AM
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.
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.
omg... T.M.I... no one wants to know what you do with your pizza on a lonely night.
Winterblade
Reply #32 Monday, March 10, 2008 7:34 AM
Reply #32 Monday, March 10, 2008 7:34 AM
6 * 9 = 42. Doesn't mean the question has to be in base 10 math.
Wearing my shades from the computer game...
KarmaGirl
Reply #33 Monday, March 10, 2008 8:23 AM
Reply #33 Monday, March 10, 2008 8:23 AM
ok, im a little confused multiply six by nine? isn't that 54?? where does the 42 fall in ??
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?
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Reply #21 Sunday, March 9, 2008 1:27 PM