Here's a mind bender to Douglas Adams. He worked with computers in the 1970s and knew that 42 is the ASCII code for *.
An asterisk is used as a wild card. It can mean anything.
So the meaning of life is anything you want it to mean. 42.
The real answer to the meaning of life was given by the computer in the way a computer could relate it.
@wattdefalk @Red_Shirt_no2 @tenzochris
In all honesty he had said it was a random number that he just picked. A few in this thread have pointed out that he used an old Mac which did not use ASCII characters. For that I don't know. What I do know is that authors love to lie about their work.
Even if the story isn't true, I do like the idea of a hidden plot point in the books and that Adams was yanking our chain all of these years.
In essence, true or not, it's fun to ponder.
Kind of like life
Chris @ 🦣
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Rev. Watt deFalk, O.C.D.
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