> > BTW, what is this "42 indicator" all about? I'm aware of 42 being the > > answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, but... (funny note: my cell > phone > > number happens to be 4284. Totally randomly assigned.) > > Its a Douglas Adams joke.. somehow I never got into his work, so I've been > wondering also for the past couple of days. Anyway I just did a check via google > and found this: Heh. Yeah, I know. Hence my "answer to Life, the Universe and Everything". The problem is: What's the question? ;)
> http://www.zootle.net/afda/mfaq.shtml#sect10 > <quote> > What do you get if you multiply six by nine? (and other notes on 42) Zootie? Hey, B5 fans out there? "Zootie! Zoot zoot!" > It's an extremely tired discussion, though. The joke, when Douglas wrote it, was > simply that it was the wrong question for the answer (or the wrong answer for > the question, if you prefer.) He has said himself "Nobody writes jokes in base > 13." Well, as the ultimate computer in the universe figured out, 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. The people who created the ultimate computer (okay, okay, the /mice/ who commissioned it...) were baffled, and were told something like, "Maybe you should figure out what the question is, first." > 42 is just a number. It has no significance in relation to any other previous > uses of the number 42, as least as far as DNA always insisted. > </quote> Of course, Adams was also a perpetual joker. Take everything he says with a grain of salt, that sort of thing. > ./Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
