Let's All Agree On Something (for a change)

[Swami Chihuahuananda]

I nominate the number 42 for Universal Agreement. The floor is open .

[Rawnrr]

Nothing is ever learned by people agreeing on something.

Rawn

I agree oh great master

[Ascension]

Originally Posted by Ivy

I agree oh great master

Lol !!!

Originally Posted by Dar

I nominate the number 42 for Universal Agreement. The floor is open .

I imagine you will get lots of disagreement on this one Dar...

Peacemaker hearts always do..so I will give you a hug instead..

[LadyMay]

No.......

[Swami Chihuahuananda]

Originally Posted by Rawnrr

Nothing is ever learned by people agreeing on something.

Rawn

Can we agree to disagree about that ?.

42... do I hear 43 ? ...

[LadyMay]

Isn't 42 the meaning of life?

[Swami Chihuahuananda]

Originally Posted by ScarlettHayden

Isn't 42 the meaning of life?

FROM THE ALLKNOWING WIKI

42 (forty-two) is the natural number immediately following 41 and directly preceding 43. The number has received considerable attention in popular culture as a result of its central appearance in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything".

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Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (42)[edit]







The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
In the radio series and the first novel, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never actually knew what the Question was.

When asked to produce The Ultimate Question, Deep Thought says that it cannot; however, it can help to design an even more powerful computer that can. This new computer will incorporate living beings into the "computational matrix" and will run for ten million years. It is revealed as being the planet Earth, with its pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of mice to observe its running. The process is hindered after eight million years by the unexpected arrival on Earth of the Golgafrinchans and then is ruined completely, five minutes before completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, this is revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life became known.[1]

Lacking a real question, the mice decide not to go through the whole thing again and settle for the out-of-thin-air suggestion "How many roads must a man walk down?" from Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind".

At the end of the radio series, the television series and the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur Dent, having escaped the Earth's destruction, potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain. He attempts to discover The Ultimate Question by extracting it from his brainwave patterns, as abusively[2] suggested by Ford Prefect, when a Scrabble-playing caveman spells out forty two. Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"


"Six by nine. Forty two."

"That's it. That's all there is."

"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"[1]

Six times nine is actually fifty-four. The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly, but the unexpected arrival of the Golgafrinchans on prehistoric Earth caused input errors into the system—computing (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule) the wrong question—the question in Arthur's subconscious being invalid all along.[1]

Quoting Fit the Seventh of the radio series, on Christmas Eve, 1978:


Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory, which states that this has already happened.[3]

[LadyMay]

Originally Posted by Dar

Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

This is the best bit, this is why no one can ever agree