What is the Ultimate Question? / myLot

Canada

August 23, 2018 2:20pm CST

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't tell us, but it gives us the Ultimate answer...42. Why is 42 the answer to a question so great it cannot possibly be framed? We only know that it is the answer to the meaning of life, the Universe and EVERYTHING. Personally, I think the ultimate question is anything about the meaning of life, the universe and everything that each individual asks themselves. Now that I understand the meaning of 42, I would have to say that it is the ULTIMATE answer! I did a bit of research and found that the number "42" in ASCII Code represents the Asterisk. (*) The asterisk in any written language is used as a "wildcard" letter, word, phrase or number. In other words; "Whatever you (each individual) wants it to be". Therefore, The ultimate answer to your ultimate question is "Whatever you make of it". Too each his own. (It took a computer 7.5 million years to solve this dilemma)

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DianneN

@DianneN (246720)

• United States

24 Aug 18

Thank goodness for computers!

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69413)

• Germany

23 Aug 18

I've read and enjoyed the book although it's very difficult to read if your native language isn't English.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (45002)

• Preston, England

27 Aug 18

Try answering every academic exam question with 42 and you find that many tutors don't know it is the answer to everything.

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Starmaiden

@Starmaiden (9311)

• Canada

27 Aug 18

They know. They just don't want YOU to know.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (45002)

• Preston, England

27 Aug 18

@Starmaiden very probably

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Joanie

@Freelanzer (10745)

• Canada

27 Aug 18

It all comes down to what each individual believes or want to believe.

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Starmaiden

@Starmaiden (9311)

• Canada

27 Aug 18

Hence the Asterisk. (*).

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Genipher

@Genipher (5405)

• United States

11 Oct 18

Well, the computer was destroyed minutes before the question could be revealed but I've heard it might have been: What's 6 x 9?

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Genipher

@Genipher (5405)

• United States

11 Oct 18

@Starmaiden That's the point, though. Douglas Adams' work was full of ridiculous, funny, impossible stuff. In his world, 6x9 would totally be the question to the answer of 42.

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Starmaiden

@Starmaiden (9311)

• Canada

12 Oct 18

@Genipher You are right. Keeps us all on our toes.

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Starmaiden

@Starmaiden (9311)

• Canada

11 Oct 18

Then the answer would be wrong. 6×9=54 not 42. 6×7 maybe.