42 ... The ultimate answer to everything

Happy anniversary... October 1979!
42 years ago.
And if you don't understand, that's ok... Just keep banging the rocks together!

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Sazzio · 31-35, M

I do study history but mainly UK Monarch, reigns, wars and date of events.

I'd be interested to know more about 42?

walabby · 61-69, M

@Sazzio ... and hitchhiking ..

ElwoodBlues · M

@Sazzio A race of people called the Magratheans decided to build a computer to answer the ultimate question:

“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
"Life!" urged Fook.
"The Universe!" said Lunkwill.
"Everything!" they said in chorus.
Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection.
"Tricky," he said finally.
"But can you do it?"
Again, a significant pause.
"Yes," said Deep Thought, "I can do it."
"There is an answer?" said Fook with breathless excitement.
"Yes," said Deep Thought. "Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I'll have to think about it."
...
Fook glanced impatiently at his watch.
“How long?” he said.
“Seven and a half million years,” said Deep Thought.
Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
“Seven and a half million years...!” they cried in chorus.
“Yes,” declaimed Deep Thought, “I said I’d have to think about it, didn’t I?"