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From: Morrill.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
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Subject: Re: The base is thirteen
Message-ID: <13416@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 14:19:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 14:19:00 1983
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Re:	 "Even though he used the scrabble chits 2 m. years before the
earth was destroyed, Arthur Dent was from a time when the experiment
was NEARLY finished.  Thus (by the book's reasoning), he still had the
answer engraved in his brain matrix (?), which is why the mice wanted
to buy it from him."


What people seem to forget is that the Golgafringams (spellings off by a
mile but I think you know who I mean) landed on and populated the Earth
while the cavemen died off.  Since the cavemen were meant to be part of
the programming of the Earth, and the Golgafringams were not, then the
question to the ultimate answer of 42 which was about to be found just
five minutes before the Earth was destroyed, was wrong.  Therefore, the
question in Arthur Dent's brain, which may have accually been 6 X 9, was
wrong.