can anyone confirm this answer?

[MostlyHarmless]

42 - all help appreciated

[L1A2 discharged]

possibly something to do with the mice?

[NRU74]

...anything to do with eyesight ?

[exscribbler]

It's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy #Deep_Thought), specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)). Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown. When asked to produce The Ultimate Question, the computer says that it cannot; however, it can help to design an even more powerful computer (the Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth)), that can. The programmers then embark on a further ten-million-year program to discover The Ultimate Question. This new computer will incorporate living beings in the "computational matrix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis#Direct_and_iterative_methods)", with the pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of mice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mice). The process is hindered after eight million years by the unexpected arrival on Earth of the Golgafrinchans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy# Golgafrinchans) and then is ruined completely, five minutes before completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy# Vogons) to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. This is later revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_Halfrunt), who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life) became known.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#ci te_note-book2-0)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)

Google is indeed your friend!

It could, of course, be the answer to the question, "How many more Typhoons will the RAF get?" :E

[Finnpog]

I would imagine that with a PPRuNe name of "Mostly Harmless", the OP will be fairly up to speed regarding Douglas Adams' literature.

42 is indeed correct.

That is half of the unit cost (in US$) currently quoted for each F35

[Wholigan]

Jeeeez ............ I heard and even felt the "whoooosh" from Yorkshire all the way down here in Zoomerzett!!!

:E:ugh:

[pr00ne]

MostlyHarmless,

Yes, I can confirm that is an answer, an answer to several questions in fact............

[Lafyar Cokov]

...What's seven times nine?

[The Real Slim Shady]

7 more than the answer to "What's seven times eight?"

[Lancman]

I’ve been using another of Douglas Adams’ brilliant imaginations quite a lot recently, the Babel fish. I’ve been doing business with a Company that only writes to me in Italian, I translate it into English using Google’s Babel fish, deduce their meaning and convert my replies into Italian the same way. Just for fun I’ve been re-translating my replies back into English, the results have been curious to say the least. The headline for this sub-forum translated into German and back again becomes:

Military forum the flight crew A for the specialists, those the Nichtzivilist hardware fly and the Hinterstübchenjungen and - girls, without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, navy and Air Forces of the world, everything welcome evenly here

Good innit?

[EESDL]

My friend tells me that it is as old as he would like to go with upper age limit when submitting search profile on online dating agency............

[TAC Queen]

The number of posts before someone complains that this has nothing to do with flying and so should be moved. They will also type that they have never read so much drivel and it’s pointless and the spelling and grandma is atrocious.
:E

Oh AIDU has already started, ok just the first bit then.
Ill get me coat.:{

[cockney steve]

pish.... It's the number of the house/shop where I spent my early years:-


42, St. Osyth Road, Clacton -on - Sea, Essex.

and it doesn't get more pointless than that. :}

[Grabbers]

Is it the IQ of AIDU......doubled?

[Spam_UK]

The % chance of getting somewhere/something on time with the MOD? :}



Probably a little too high actually!

[Faithless]

MMmmmmmmm...!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number) :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

[ArthurR]

42 maybe the answer, but what was the question?
use it as an answer often. Must get out more often!

But then again there are 10 types of people in this world,
Those that understand logic, and those that don't

[AIDU]

Number of points needed at OASC in the aptitude tests to become an RAF Air Trafficker?

[Guzlin Adnams]

Christ, that's how old I was three years ago....:ooh:

[ricardian]

Reminiscent of the first "Monty Python" programme. A chap complained to the BBC that he was interested in circuses and interested in flying but he could not understand why the programme went right over his head...

[Cornish Jack]

Actually, it's been recalculated and the new result is 37 ... I've no idea if there is ANY aviation significance involved.:confused:

[NickGooseBrady]

42 / 7 = 6

6 / 2 = 3

3 - 1 = 2

2 - 2 = 0

0 = the number of Civil Serpents working this afternoon. :ugh:

[Jimmy Macintosh]

7 x 9?
7 less than 7 x 8?

I thought the original number was 42...

I thought it was supposed to be the answer to the question it was asked just before someone asked it for the meaning of life. It just so happens that the first question was: What's 6 x 7?

[spanners123]

42 could be the answer, do you have the receipt and rope form?

[nwid]

Ex 42 Sqn Siggy, Smiley Mildwater got fed up with being a console operator in the C130K Sim at Lyneham so stood in a bye election in the days when you could get out of the military quickly by doing so. He was the "Save the 2CV" party. Guess how many votes he got - yep - 42!!!
Mid-Staffordshire - 22 Mar 90. He didn't mind losing his deposit, but the worst thing for him was we all found out he was really called Bernard!