If the answer to life is 42, is it still true when the person who said that is dead? Does that make 42 null and void?Quote:
Originally posted by LoudLou
The answer to life is 42.
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If the answer to life is 42, is it still true when the person who said that is dead? Does that make 42 null and void?Quote:
Originally posted by LoudLou
The answer to life is 42.
42 was only the answer. The real puzzle was the question.Quote:
Originally posted by Miss Meow
If the answer to life is 42, is it still true when the person who said that is dead? Does that make 42 null and void?
Good point though, is it still valid since Adams died?
They do???:confused: ;)
Oh yes, the question. Maybe the question has changed?Quote:
Originally posted by CatDad
42 was only the answer. The real puzzle was the question.
Good point though, is it still valid since Adams died?
Mahayana, the reason life exists is to contemplate these sorts of questions :eek: And eat chocolate :D When I contemplate the meaning of life, and where it all comes from, I get confused and eat chocolate. So maybe chocolate is the meaning of life???
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Originally posted by CatDad
Good point though, is it still valid since Adams died?
Good stories will never die!!!
"42?"
It's enough to keep you in Deep Thought for a while.....
easy!!.......4 fingers and two thumbs.....
you can hitchhike to the left AND right....
;)
LoudLou- Are you working on the story that explains 42? Your penguin tale is most excellent, I keep going back and rereading it.
I'm not a numerologist, but I do remember that ice9 is the way the world ends!
It never rains here, so we will likely survive longer than most...
By the by- Is Loud Louie and the Beans a musical group? Must be either doowop or jazz!;)
42?? 42 what?? Polar Bears with space suits? Now I am confused, totally, of course I stay that way!!:D :confused: :confused: ;)
Douglas Adams (RIP) wrote a book called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe..Quote:
Originally posted by trayi52
42?? 42 what?? Polar Bears with space suits? Now I am confused, totally, of course I stay that way!!:D :confused: :confused: ;)
In the book a computer called Deep Thought was
asked the meaning of life......It 'thunk' for a
while and said "42"..
Thanks for explaining the literary reference...hope this won't stop LL from tying it it in with the penguins!
Another thing I've wondered about is animal intelligence...buddhists often refer to "all sentient beings."
How can we hope to communicate with aliens, when we haven't even learned to speak with other lifeforms here?
How do you say 42 in penguinese?
Now I know what answer to give to somebody that ask me a question I don't know, 42 penguins and 42 polar bears.:D ;)
Oh, by far they are more intelligent than we are....Quote:
Originally posted by mahayana
Another thing I've wondered about is animal intelligence...
They don't worry, they don't drive, they don't do a bunch of things that us hoomans kill ourselves trying to accomplish...
Look at it this way....
My cat stays at home, gets fed, gets all of his needs taken care of....all he has to do is meet me at the door around 6:15 in the afternoon.
I get up, drive to work and worry about almost everything for
they 17-18 hours I am awake....
I can tune my car, use Excel on the computer, balance my check book and read a book...
My cat sleeps all day and is loved when I get home...
Who's the intelligent being in MY household?
42????
42 cats?????
Think of the paranoia while hanging around with cannibal penguins!!!
:eek:
Your cat meets you at the door?:eek: :pQuote:
Originally posted by RICHARD
My cat stays at home, gets fed, gets all of his needs taken care of....all he has to do is meet me at the door around 6:15 in the afternoon.
yeah, don't other cats do that???:confused:Quote:
Originally posted by catland
Your cat meets you at the door?:eek: :p
lol, when i pull the car in the driveway he's there "yelling " before I make it around the corner!
I yell at him, "Who's your daddy?" And he answers, mmmmeee YOU !!!!!!
Of course the neighbors think I am crazy, but my cat is 10 times smarter than their kids...I never had to potty train Eddie!!!!
:D
LOUD Louie: One VERY LOUD Corgi + The Beans: 2 Meezer Kitties, Mocha Bean and Garbonzo Bean = LOUD Louie and The Beans.Quote:
Originally posted by mahayana
By the by- Is Loud Louie and the Beans a musical group? Must be either doowop or jazz!;)
LOUD Louie would prefer a country band.
Mocha Bean would be Jazz.
Garbonzo Bean is a Total 80's Rocker! ;)
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Originally posted by LoudLou
LOUD Louie would prefer a country band.
Mocha Bean would be Jazz.
Garbonzo Bean is a Total 80's Rocker! ;)
Music does make the world go round, don't it?:D
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...211501,00.htmlQuote:
Originally posted by mahayana
LoudLou- Are you working on the story that explains 42?
42
42 is the number from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything")
could be derived.
A BBC radio script based on Adams' book contains the following lines:
("Cave man" lays out following sentence in Scrabble stones:
"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?")
Arthur: Six by nine? Forty-two? You know, I've always felt that
there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe.
(Faint and distant voice:) Base thirteen!
For the literal-minded and those unfamiliar with terms like
"base thirteen," this is a number system in which the number 10
is equivalent to our more familiar decimal 13. A base-13 number 42,
therefore, is the same as four 13s plus 2, or decimal 54.
So "six by nine" (six times nine) or decimal 54 is, in base 13, 42.
For the mystically inclined, 42 in base 13 is the same as 110110 in binary (base 2).
This could mean almost anything, and many Adams fans have spent untold hours
discovering all of the places where the number "42" pops up.
For example, there are many mentions of the number in the Book of Revelation.
Others have made a game of finding 42s, such as these:
The angle at which light reflects off of water to create a rainbow is 42 degrees.
Two physical constants in the universe are the speed of light and the diameter of
a proton. It takes light 10 to the minus 42nd power seconds to cross the diameter
of a proton.
The sum of the ordinal alphabetic positions of the initials (SPG) for Stan (P.) Gibilisco,
an oft-published science and technology writer, is equal to 42 (S=19, P=16, G=7).
A barrel holds 42 gallons.
(It should be noted that all of these 42's are base 10, not base 13.) :confused: :D ;)
Some other interesting and Funny reading
http://www.intellectualloafing.com/d...everything.htm
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_An...and_Everything
http://yudkowsky.net/tmol-faq/miscellaneous.html
Although I really like Miss Meow's theory that the meaning of life is chocolate... I think you are on to something there! ;)
I just read your post, and phew, the whole chocolate thing is far easier for me to digest (oops, bad pun!)Quote:
Originally posted by LoudLou
Although I really like Miss Meow's theory that the meaning of life is chocolate... I think you are on to something there! ;)
Me too! My brain hurts now:eek: ... must go find chocolate!;)
Wow lots of posts to my pointless topic! :D
Hey we like pointless topics, sometimes they get to be a lot of fun. Like mahayana talking about penquins in spacesuits walking around on the moon, I could just picture that, and it struck me as very amusing. There was one thread on here about cone breeders, it was sooo funny. Thanks Relentless for the topic, come up with some more good ones. :D
Ah yes.. the music of the spheres!
hehehehe,
I love this thread, it just made me laugh.
Good job for pointing this out Karen.:)
What other questions do you have for us? ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Relentless
Wow lots of posts to my pointless topic! :D
I have another imponderable, if you don't mind having me keep doing this?:confused: :confused: :confused:
What happens to our individual personality after we die?
I only ask because I read somewhere about people being hypnotised, and speaking coherently in foreign languages that they never learned to speak.
This sparked an interest in reincarnation, and I spent several hours at beliefnet reading an interminable thread of many opinions about which religions believe what, name-calling, etc..
But I never heard anything refering to the phenomenon mentioned above...
so, what do you think?
Now, I think there is a difference between personality and soul....Quote:
Originally posted by mahayana
What happens to our individual personality after we die?
The soul is the energy, the personality is the
face or quirks associated with it.
I feel we lose our quirkiness and our soul becomes
part of the universe at large....
I mean who wants to meet up with an old flame in eternity as their old self???
;)
Sometimes, I like pointless topics. They are a lot of fun. How about another question?:pQuote:
Originally posted by Relentless
Wow lots of posts to my pointless topic! :D
I just checked out LL's links in the 42 answer and realized that everyone thought the question was the meaning of life...
when really I wondered why it ever started.
You know, like if God created everything, then where did God come from? That sort of thing.
The spinning of the earth must derive from that somehow, also penguins, hampsters, humans, numbers,souls...hah!
I am bad! Just posting to get this funny thread back on the first page so more will read about the penguins;)
"shove me in the shallow water before I get too deep..."
New Bohemians
and kudos to Loud Lou! Are you a published author?