Why Is It So?

;-)

P38 sounds closer to the mark.

Yes ...but what IS the question?

The question was 7 X 9.... so why was the answer 42?

I'll spoil the party and give you the question which comes before the answer

Question What is the meaning of life? Or, If there is a God, what would he think of the question?

(This question was put by all and sundry of the universe. The mice commissioned the building of the mega computer which was to give the answer. It took 10 million years or thereabouts to complete the project. In the end the computer came up with the answer of 42)

Bonz might correct me on the facts if he wishes but that is my interpretation...lol

Going Hitchhiking??

Rojac

I'd give my eye teeth to go hitch-hiking around the galaxy.

Better still, convert the GQ into a Supersonic Warp-drive shuttle.

Come to think of it, I don't have any eye teeth left.........sigh

Even better than that, travel backwards and forwards through time, all thats needed is a Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space machine.

If we could just borrow the one from the BBC for 5 minutes....LOL

Actually Royce the question that the final mega computer (called Earth) came up with was.......... What is six times seven? Arthur Dent pulled the letters randomly from a bag in the early pre-cambrian period.

The mega computer was destroyed by the Vogons during construction of a space mega highway, and the program was never completed.

Bonz

HNY

Wasn't there another computer before Earth was built? I am confused...lol

Yes Willem I too have my towel ready and would give your eye teeth to travel the universe, only in a Patrol tho with the Hyperdrive that the Heart of Gold had.

The mice commissioned the computer, Deep Thought, to answer the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, to which mystics and soothsayers most objected to. They selected BrunFondel and Majikthise to represent them to the Mice and the computer and were present for its Answer. Which of course was 42. They then had to find out the Question. For that reason a greater and more powerful computer was built for which Deep Thought was not worthy to calculate its most minor equations, this was the Earth (Slartibartfast designed the Fjords in Norway - He got an award for it) and the Magratheans were commissioned to build it.

Sadly it was destroyed by the Vogons before it had completed its work and the Magratheans were brough out of hibernation and commissioned to build another earth to answer the Question. This rebuilt Earth was the one that Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect wandered over (found Slartibartfasts initials on a Fjord) and finally found the Answer.

The movie is on Austar Box Office this month I might just take a look.

Thanks for that insight Bonz,

We do have the New HHGTTG on DVD and I should go and view it again

Cheers

Royce, it was actually 6 x 9, and it does or at least can equal 42 if you discount our distinctly human point of view. If we were born with thirteen fingers......(work it out)

yes Gary you're right the question was, after Arthur rightly consoled a caveman for being out-evolved by a Golgafrincham Telephone Sanitiser and and spelling library with only one "r" after introducing a random element that can be shaped by Arthurs brainwaves..."What do you get if you multiply six by nine" hmmmm 42 eh

I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe

GaryinOz

I think your reference to the aspirational market and 'hammering' and 'slamming' exotics is spot on. That is a good way of looking at it.

It may never happen but regulators should take yp the idea of de-tuning the reporting of acceleration times - even if young drivers can still get the info off the web.

I had forgotten the Austin 1800 and the greatest leaker of all the Ford Capri. The Camira was a classic, had a friend with one of those - everything failed at some time or other :-(

EV700

I thought the Camira was a gem compared to the holden sunbird. Now they had a licence to burn money.Lol

If you were a motoring writer which would you prefer to test drive and write about:

1. The boring humdrum POS that most people put up with as their standard transportation, or

2. The latest, greatest fire breathing whizz bang POS that far less than 1% of the world's population can afford to own.

Don't need a uni degree to work that one out.

Gramps, even more so, many readers want to read and experience through others eyes what they can never afford themselves

True Bonz, very true. Been guilty of exactly that on more than one occasion :)))

Don't forget the Volkswagen Passat. What a P.O.S. that COTY was.