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From: spock@hope.UUCP (Chris Ambler)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: 42
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 08:03:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 08:03:44 1986
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> 
> From net.jokes:
> 
> >>You left out my favorite joke: 42. (Insert appropriate credits to
> >>Douglas Adams here.)
> 
> I have seen this number referenced before. What is its significance?

In the far-out reaches of the western spiral arm of the milky way galaxy,
there is a small unregarded yellow sun, and revolving around it is an
equally unregarded planet who's inhabitants are so primitive that they
still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. These creatures, to
make a *VERY* long (but *VERY* enjoyable) story short are the components
of a super computer that is to find out the ultimate question to life, the
universe, and EVERYTHING. You see, it seems that a group of highly 
intelligent pan-dimentional beings once made a super computer, and asked
it the answer to life, the universe and everything. The answer, of course,
was, and still is, 42. We just don't know the question.
Read the Douglas Adams series:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
The Restraunt at the edge of the Universe,
Life, the Universe, and Everything, and
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish.           <GREAT SERIES!!>

-Spock!  (Christopher J. Ambler, University of California, Riverside)
         -"Captain, I see no reason to bother Starfleet..."