So if the answer to life is 42, what's the question?
Well, I just finished watching The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and in the movie there is a scene where they are told the answer to life is 42. So what would you say the ultimate question is?
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@Judi great question. When I was born.
In the book and the movie, the Ultimate Question was what is 6×9, and the joke is…...the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is therefore wrong.
There’s a passage in the second book where Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent crash and become stranded on “primitive” earth, and they attempt to extract the readout from the computer designed to come up with the ultimate question which fit that answer by channelling it through Arthur’s mind via a Scrabble set. The question they come up with is “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?” Arthur comments, “I’ve always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.”
The answer is that Douglas Adams is only a sci-fi author.
More to the point, he’s not a very good sci-fi author.
@Judi no I’m just saying life began for me when I was born.
I believe it’s “how many roads must a man walk down?”
@The_Compassionate_Heretic – 2 problems with that…one is that he WAS, not is (he’s dead), and two he WAS really more of a satirist/humorist than a SciFi writer. But I’m mincing words here…
I loved the first book, I am thrilled to know there are 2 more to read. I have the first one from Audible.com and it was read by Stephen Frye, I see there is a different reader for the next 2, I hope he is as good as Stephen.
The question is, “Why is life not a spectator sport” I thought everyone knew that.
Steven Fry is a sexy bitch. I am going to go buy that book right now.
what are the next numbers in this number series?
32,16,8
@rooeytoo – there are actually 4 more to read. The world’s only 5 book trilogy
1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3) Life, the Universe and Everything
4) So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
5) Mostly Harmless
Get reading.
@dalepetrie – thank you only 1, 2 & 3 are on audible. But I will search for hard copies of the other 2, I think I still remember how to read!!! I like that – a 5 book trilogy, it goes along with the writing style and wry humor.
Why can’t anyone spell Stephen Fry’s name right? Poor Stephen.
@MacBean – I have the Stephen correct. I googled him and his surname appears both ways, Fry and Frye, so I am not sure about that.
I think 42 is the answer to: How many questions of life, the universe, and everything are there?
Otherwise it’s a really bad answer to: Why?
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What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
The number 42 does not explain anything. Though it is the answer to any formula in which the variable is equal to 42. For example, 40 + 2 = x
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everyone has pointed out what it really is but my boyfriend thinks any statement someone starts with “I have a question” is the ultimate question seeing as he blurts out 42 as quickly as possible.
When does this question finally slink off and die a dignified death?
Yes. What is the question.
You forgot to end your question with a question mark?
@NaturalMineralWater The sequence would be 42, 85, 170, 341.
Why? Because 42 in digital terms is 101010. Digital is very key in the HGTTU books.
I thought it was “what is the meaning of life?”
I was just rereading (listening to) the book. The Correct Answer is “how many roads must a man walk down!”
Congratulations to @Sarcasm
@brinibear – what is the prize???
what do you get when you multiply 6×9
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