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Originally Posted by Jolanta Zofia Nowak  No, it was the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything...
... and the Hubble Constant has very little to do with it. It's just 'what you get when you multiply 6 and 7'... |
I know thats what it says in the book but douglas adams picked 42 as the basis for his joke
because it was the hubble constant at the time of writing.
if you recall deep though came up with the answer - earth was designed to come up with the question but the reason the question was 6x7 (or indeed 9) was because the original inhabitants of earth were wiped out and surplanted by the human race who were decended from a space ship full of telephone ear piece cleaners, which screwed up the programming.
The rest of the inhabitants of the planet from which the telephone ear piece cleaners had come werre subsequently wiped out by a plague caught from telephone ear pieces
from all which we can conclude that douglas adams was a bit odd .... he'd have fitted in well on wab tho
