What On Earth Is 42?

Do You Know The Answer?

Published on March 8, 2008 By Hankers In WinCustomize News

It's been 30 years that Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been broadcast on BBC radio and yet its most famous mystery is still waiting to be resolved. Douglas Adams died in 2001 without revealing the meaning of "42".

Stephen Fry, a close friend, and the voice of the audiobook claims that "Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious" and "But sadly I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. Pity, because it explains so much beyond the books. It really does explain the secret of life, the universe, and everything."

So what do you think the meaning of "42" is? Have you read any of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7283155.stm

Comments (Page 3)

HG_Eliminator

on Mar 10, 2008

rofl..

Winterblade

on Mar 10, 2008

6 * 9 = 42. Doesn't mean the question has to be in base 10 math. Wearing my shades from the computer game...

KarmaGirl

on Mar 10, 2008

ok, im a little confused multiply six by nine? isn't that 54?? where does the 42 fall in ??

Umm..it would mean that the Universe is a bit off and what you think is real may not be. You obviously have not read the books or the whole humor in that would have been obvious.

Now, where did I leave my bathrobe and towel?

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