OFF: The Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

[Paul G Ward]

  *** 'Hitchiker' book beats astronomers to universal key

  Scientists searching for one of the fundamental keys to the universe
  found they had been beaten to the answer by the cult novel
  "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." In the British novel and radio
  serial, an alien race programs a computer to provide the ultimate
  answer to understanding life and the universe. In the novel, seven
  and a half million years later the computer comes back with the
  result--42. British astronomers took three years to calculate the
  Hubble Constant that determines the age of the universe, which is
  also 42. For the full text story, see
  http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=476354-6c5

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"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research,
 would it?"                                       - Albert Einstein

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