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

[Max Wilcox]

Jon Jarrett wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, J Strobridge wrote:
>
> > ah ha - but the American Astrophysicists say that 42 is wrong and that the
> > answer is really 65.   Which I think also could agree with the book
> > since (as I recall) all the hairdressers (and Arthur and Ford) end up
> > back at the dawn of civilisation and have therefore subverted the
> > initial programming of the rise of humanity who were supposed to
> > determine the answer - so the answer of 42 was wrong and it *should* be
> > something else..... yes....?
>
>         Ooh - not quite. The planet Earth was meant to determine not the
> answer (which had been provided by the infallible Deep Thought, and was,
> unshakeably, 42), but the question, without which the answer made little
> sense.
>         So I guess we're no closer even if 42 _is_ the Hubble constant,
> and the way I hear it it's 42 plus or minus 30 per cent... Oh, let's just
> stick with existentialism...
>                              Jon

        Or deconstructionalism, post-structuralism, post-modernism or just
plain semiotics.
        Errr....sorry, I don't know what I'm saying....
-Max Wilcox