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Of course. The meaning of life and everything (to me) is to oppress homosexuals, destroy the Supreme Court, and to utterly elimate the Democratic party and anyone named Tom Daschle that serves as Senate minority leader.
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Hey, keep the bitterness in the threads that give rise to it! Did you come to a forum expecting to not be challenged?
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ok, everyone always replies 42!!!, but why is the question is that the standard reply? because someone made it up
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Ralphie does that mean that even to ME the meaning to life and everythings is your husbands "tight and well shaped buttocks"?
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Anyway, 42 ISN'T the meaning of life and everything...it's the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything." The question, if I remember correctly, is "What is 9 x 7?"
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yeah, considering that 6x7 is 42, not 9x7, on the other hand, i might just be a fool and totally miss the point of those posts
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No, I'm pretty sure that's it. Don't be concerned by the math; I'm pretty sure that 9 x 7 = 42 in some random base. Posts: 4077 | Registered: Jun 2003
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Okay, people who have never read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are no longer allowed to post in this thread.
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Hey, look, I didn't make it up. I'd say you could take it up with Douglas Adams, but, regrettably, he died in 2001. Anyway, read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The question is at the end of the second book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Really, I swear!
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I did read it, but it's been about 15 years. I remember the answer, of course, but evidently not the phrasing of the question.
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The population of the Universe: 0. Since the universe is infinite, and since it can be said that only a finite amount of planets are inhabited, the population of the universe is a finite number divided by infinity, which is so close to zero that it counts no odds, so the universe is uninhabited and anyone you happen to encounter is merely a product of your deranged imagination.
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therfore if that works, then wouldnt the book have to be called 6x9, in base of 13 just to make sense, or are publishers so coniving (sp?) today that titles do not have to make sense?
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Arthur Dent, inhabitant of the computer called Earth, had the question to the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything (42) imprinted in his brain without his knowing it. So, he drew scrabble cubes out of a bag to see what his unconscious mind would say, and it said: SIX TIMES NINE IS FORTY TWO.
The point therefore being that the meaning of life is either nonexistent or very silly and not worth the effort at all.
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BTW, in my opinion, the perfect song for THHGTTG is "Brazil," most notable seen in the movie... "Brazil..."
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Which? The song or the movie? Because the movie is a Terry Gilliam movie from the 80's... Pretty crazy.
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Book, Nope, you missed the point. At the time Arthur did this, we had learned that instead of beinga pure descedent of the indiginous inhabitants of Earth and thus part of the computational process to find the question, Arthur is instead either a hybrid between these aboriginals and the uselss population of the people that sent the Ark (I want to say Golgolfinches, but I doubt that's right) or just a descedent of the people from the Ark. Thus, him not getting a sensible answer (although flip the 9 around to make it a 6 and well...) to the question is a joke off of this, not a comment on the futility of looking for a real question.
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Oops. I remember now. I still think that the final point remains: the meaning of life is either nonexistent or so silly that it's not worth the effort.
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You're all wrong. The Question to the Ultimate Answer is still unknown. The warped version of the Question that was found in Arthur Dent's mind by means of the Scrabble letters is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
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I believe the laughing man (prak?) said in the third volume that the Answer and the Question could never exist in the same plane of existence.
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Actually I believe the theory was held that the question and the answer could not both be known, and if they were the universe would simply anihilate itself and be replaced by something even stranger (obviously not the exact wording). Another theory maintains that this has already occurred. Posts: 609 | Registered: Apr 2003
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The meaning of life? To have fun, learn all you can, raise a happy and healthy family, leave every place you visit and every person you meet a little bit better off then before, and to stand firm against those who would prevent any of those. Oh, and Ralphie's husband's buttocks.
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I kinda think Dougluas Adams picked 42 for it's randomness in order to get a point across that there is no real answer probably, and after we find it, we still won't really know what the question is. I think the point was to say there isn't one.
My friend would probably say the meaning to life was striving to meet Orson Scott Card.
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I'm still under the impression that the meaning to life and everything is Ralphie's husbands buttocks... is this absolute truth no longer true?
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