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  2. According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Is it ever explained, in canon 1, why the answer to the meaning of life is 42? 1 - Book, Film, TV series or Radio series.

  3. As seen in this answer, Doug Adams chose 42 (the answer) randomly: The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed ...

  4. The original radio script is pretty close to the novel, but here it is for the sake of completeness. Taken from a 1985 edition of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts: F/X: DEEP THOUGHT CLEARS HIS THROAT. TWO: Deep Thought prepares to speak. DT: Good Evening. ONE: Good Evening...

  5. Was Douglas Adams trying to express something in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books? 19 Is the age of the Earth in the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 10 million years?

  6. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value.

  7. douglas adams - In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, how deep...

    scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68556/in-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy...

    Some unusual extra hands went into the making of The Division Bell album, their last album [true when the Telegraph article was written] made in 1994: Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, named it, and the scientist Stephen Hawking makes a guest appearance on it.

  8. The Hitchhiker's Guide wiki states that 'Belgium' is the rudest word in the galaxy. ... are both at 42. I ...

  9. One thing which pretty much everyone knows about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is that the ‘meaning of life’ (actually the Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything) is ‘42’, but there is also a much subtler answer to perhaps this very question tucked inside.

  10. the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Where did the idea of the...

    scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73589/where-did-the-idea-of-the-pov-gun-come...

    How many books are there in "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" series? 1 How was Zaphod Beeblebrox five hundred thousand light years away from the Sun and still in the Milky way?

  11. Where does real political power lie in Hitchhiker's Guide to the...

    scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146207/where-does-real-political-power-lie

    Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Later, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , we learn the the Ruler of the Universe is a solipsistic man on a remote planet, and that only six people can find him: