Been answered. The 42nd character of ascii is *. * is known as a wildcard when concerning computer. Therefore the actual answer to the ultimate question is whatever you want it to be.
@steve gale You were* (not was) also wrong. Not sure where you got that idea from but you should really stop acting all smug because its BS. He already confirmed the reason he chose 42. He said: "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 it out. End of story."
steve gale i don’t think it has anything to do with that. If the universe keeps expanding at an accelerated rate that does not mean that if it wasn’t so the universe wouldn’t exist. That’s like saying that if you hadn’t brought a water bottle to a race you wouldn’t have started it. It has nothing to do with that. The answer to life, the universe and everything has to do with something that connects everything. The only thing that everything has in common is that everything is made of the same stuff and that everything exists. The reason for existence might be that beings from a superior plane of existence decided just for the heck of it to bootstrap the universe into existence. Existence is the objective. Everyone wants to keep existing. So that is the objetive and therefore the answer. Existence is the question and the answer.
The Question is: "Pick a number. Any number." This is evidenced when Marvin, with a brain the size of a planet, asks a mattress to pick a number, any number. It guesses 5, and Marvin responds that is wrong. It was supposed to pick a different number. It was supposed to pick 42.
The mistake that the mice made was that they asked a computer what the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything was, and naturally, the answer was a number. Simple, logical, and completely unusuable for any non-digital being. When they built Earth, they were using a biological computer, a living thing to figure out the question. As we see here, the question he comes up with is one much better suited for living things. At least, for non-sociopaths.
@@neil999ish well the answer becomes wrong at that point, as Dent is Arthur is a descendant of humans and Golgafrinchans, he is a glitch in the code, so when he pulls a random set of letters out of a scrabble bag in an attempt to solve the puzzle of 42, the answer is "What is six times nine?" which is obviously wrong.
@@jameslamberton7671 it's not wrong, there just isn't any deeper meaning to it. That's the whole point of the entire series: that life is absurd and random, and there isn't any special meaning to be found. Sure, from a mathematical perspective it's wrong, but this was a philosophical question. What do you get when you multiply six by nine? Forty-two. What does it mean? Nothing at all, and that's why it's funny.
When I was around 5, I saw this scene, and while it scared me at the time I always remembered it, but I had no idea where it came from. It's plagued me my whole life, asking friends and family to no avail, "Do you remember a scene from a movie where two rodents were trying to steal a man's brain with circular saws?" This question has plagued me for the better part of 2 decades, and today I finished reading the book. Upon feeling something familiar at the book scene, it was when I saw that it was adapted for the screen on the front blurb that I realized that I might have the answer, and I was right. Unlike the book itself, I know both the question and the answer. "What movie had a scene where two rodents were trying to steal a man's brain with circular saws?" "The movie adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Aha funny... I had a similar experience with a song that I heard only twice on the radio in the 90s when growing up as a kid. When I was like 23, I finally found the title of the song, Missing by Everything but the Girl. The reason I could never find it was because I was mishearing the lyrics as a kid... I thought she was saying "The deserts mystery" but it actually went "The deserts misses the rain".
You're literally me. Except i remembered the scene where Ford squeezes a lemon to make Zaphod think. I googled it and found out what movie that was, and that there's also a book. Been a huge fan ever since. Also watched the bbc series, highly recommend. It aged like fine wine. Even the special effects, the decorations. It all looks wonderful. As well as acting and humour. So great. Also the script is fairly true to the book.
@MrPilotStunts the BBC series was complete rubbish. Trillian a bleached blond with an american accent? I don't think. And the moron David Dixon who played Ford was a complete disgrace. Even Mark's portrayal of Zaphod was lame. It was like they were reading the lines for the very first time. You are remembering something that never happened. Or you don't care about the story.
Thanks for the laugh! Glad you figured it out eventually. Back in the 1980s, my dad tried to record a Hitchcock film, Shadow of a Doubt, on TV to watch later. He got all of it but the last 15 minutes, which of course meant that it cut off while the murderer was going after the hero. It being the 1980s, it took him months to find it in a library so he could finish the movie. 🤣🤣🤣
42 was chosen by Adams at random. The question is 6*9 Some people say this is because Arthur Dent was a contamination in the program and thus never had the question. Others argue this is to indicate the universe isn't supposed to make sense. Regardless, Adams went on to write in another book from the series that the Universe doesn't make sense, and if anyone ever found a way for it to make sense, it would reset itself in an even less sensible way
To add to that, "what's the answer to life, the universe and everything" is a stupid question. It's stupid because there is no one single answer to everything, so even the best computer in the universe would come up with a bullshit answer like 42.
@@skylerdale5351 In the book/tv adaptation, the answer is 42. Arthur and Ford finally find the "question" and it is 6 times 9. To which they note they had always figured there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Arthur dent came up with the question "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" while pulling scrabble tiles out of a bag, however somewhere else in the book it is revealed that the Golgafrinchians came and wiped out human life on Earth and replaced it with themselves, which corrupted the program. I honestly think that this corruption only modified the question a little bit, such that the original question was actually "What do you get if you multiply six by seven?" Still doesn't really make any sense to the ultimate problem of life, the universe, and everything.
Interesting, Love when you add up the numbers that represent each letter equals 54, which is what Arthur came up with in the original Hitchhiker's series when he drew letters out of a bag =P
Guy:How was your day? Arthur:I had to argue with the creators of Earth not to take my brain. Guy:Creator's of the Earth? Arthur:They were mice. Guy:????
@@Ponlets we will devolve into a battle of semantics if we go back and forth. Deep Thought created, ie devised and actually created the plan for Earth, and the Magratheans built the Earth from Deep Thoughts plans. Deep Thought is the creator while the Magratheans are the builders.
@@Ponlets lol did you even read what I said? I said Deep Thought is the creator while the Magratheans were the builders. There is a difference between creating and building. You can create something without actually building it, in this case the plans on how to build the computer, without these plans it wouldn't have been a computer to calculate the ultimate question, and without the builders, the plans would have been left at that plans. So yes, Magratheans built the Earth, based off Deep Thoughts plans, but Deep Thought is the one who actually created the Earth.
The forced love story bugs the hell out of me. They had one brief meeting at a party and barely spoke to each other from the time they got picked up to the time of this scene.
What's interesting about this is how the story ends, with earth 2.0 or whatever. 42 is definitely a meme, so it actually fits into the idea that they would literally remake an entire planet just for Martin.
"What is the smallest integer that theoretically can be expressed as the sum of the cubes of three integers, but has no known solution for those cubes as of yet"?
OK, the author said he would take this secret to the grave in an interview once. Keep in mind the phrase in the book "Don't panic and carry a towel" The Tao is a book of Eastern Philosophy which Douglas Adams was familiar with. Many pronounce it sounding much like the word Towel, mainly in Britian. It's more correct to pronounce it with a "D" like the word "dow" but the "T" is more popular. Just like the word OM is a westernized version of the word AUM, it was thought to be easier for westerners to pronounce although reducing it so removes the meaning carried by the letters A-U-M. (Tons of material out there if you want more about that just search) The 42nd chapter of the Tao is as follows: The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things. All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy. What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased. What other men (thus) teach, I also teach. The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching. There are many translations of this however all are basicaly the same. It starts with the beginning of all things and finishes with how to lead your life. This nutshell of a chapter in the Tao was important to Adams. He aledgedly did share this with a friend before his passing and comfirmed the whole bit about 42 was a reference to the 42nd chapter of the Tao, as well as the phrase "Don't panic a carry a towel (Tao)" Just my two cents. It's how I understand it and what it means to me but you do you and I'll do me! Find your own meaning if needed. Peace and Love my friends!
He chose 42 because it was funny. ""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 it out. End of story." Whatever rumor you heard saying otherwise is just a lie created by someone who wants their bullshit to be true.
Right now, he is sitting up there at the Pearly Gates, eating Vanilla Ice Cream, laughing his head off at how massive his joke has developed into this massive cultural fascination it has become. And those mice, those wicked, evil little walking dustballs.... I'll sic my cats on them!
@@Nighthawke70rodents are allusion on hierarchy's tops who like to spend their accumulated wealth on something greater-than-life that they don't want to understand, something big and shiny and allowed only for them to benefit from. Naturally someone tricks them into investing all they've got into this fluke of an entity which takes ridiculous amount of time to produce and if somehow they're not long dead by the time of release, it just spells gibberish and then promise something even greater, even more exclusive, only now it will cost them everything, reducing them from true tops to rodents. Setting them up for eventual demise.
@@oldmetalhippyoldmetalhippy1971Hah! Can't accept it? I heard that 42 was simply the mlst boring number Douglas could think of Sometimes reality is mundane, but no less beautiful for it. What's the answer? It's 42. Why though? Who the hell knows
It was 54. Also both number sets refer to randomizers : 42=Dice and 54=Card deck. However , this video clip dropped a huge plot hole regarding Fenchurch.
As he mentioned in several interviews (and in "The Salmon of Doubt", IIRC), Douglas Adams specifically picked a boring number (42) because he didn't want the "big joke" (that the answer to life, the universe and everything could be a single _number)_ to be hidden behind a "small joke" (a funny or "weird" number). So, what does every comment section about that joke turn into? A bunch of people coming up with reasons for why 42 is funny and /or deeply meaningful. 🙄
There are still people who seriously believed 6 x 9 was the real answer too, despite the fact that the same book that answer came from was explaining how humans aren't natives to Earth, therefore mostly not part of the system.
Depends what you want out of the movie or TV series. It's way better for production values (understandably for time and budget), but I'm a fan of Hitchhiker's for the jokes, and the movie cut too many out (amongst other issues) for me to consider it better!
“How many of versions of each sentient creature, treated as an assembly of molecules, are statistically most likely to exist within the universe?” ✓ Life. ✓ The Universe. ✓ Everything.
Nah. Too complicated. A god who's last message to its creation was "We apologize for the inconveniences" wouldn't make the question to his creation that complicated
fake Arthur: is she the one--ME: BOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOO I SAY. sorry martin, you can act, but they gave you a rotting pile of mink entrails instead of a script.
Except he didnt. Universally it is accepted that a "Big Bang" created the universe, an occurence, where the entire matter of the universe was compromised in one infinetly small point and immediately after "becoming" began expanding away from one another due to the coloumb powers. The state of existence before that is widely argued about, however most (relevant) people believe, that it is the exact same as beyond the borders of the known universe (not the observable one mind you) - a void state of nothingness, where the laws of physics as we know them do not exist. People who claim some kind of omnipotent individual started creation clearly do not possess the mental capacity needed to comprehend basic scientific theories. However, I always enjoy leaving them in their own small fantasy world with plushy unicorns, water that changes its atomic structure to become an alcoholic beverage and dead people reanimating.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Clearly, something was around before God xD
@steve gale If you'd actually looked at the web page I provided the klink for, you'd had read that in Star Trek, the number 47 is used quite frequently (and its variants: 74, 1947...). It all comes down to a joke by one of the producers who attended a college, where there was a club/society, which jokingly claimed that all numbers are equal to 47 and that 47 occurs more frequently in the universe than other numbers (hence the frequent occurence in Star Trek). The other producers quickly caught on and another once jokingly stated that 47 is 42 corrected for inflation.
@steve gale Considering that this video is about the number 42 (how it is not the answer - that it is love) to which I jokingly provided another answer - the number 47 and you objected to it, then I believe it is relevant. Now, I did not know that Adams used 42 because it was/is thought to be the expansion rate of the universe, many people just appreciate the joke: The ultimate answer is just some kind of number, so I thank you for this piece of information. I suppose it makes more sense if it is actually something, but even then the answer to the universe can hardly be its expansion rate. The joke is the complex question having so simple - nonsensical answer. Arthur is essentially saying that the answer is love - another simple answer, albeit he says it in a rather complex way, and for some people that can actually fit as the ultimate answer to life, universe and everything. What I did, was reject the in-universe Artur's answer and give another number, which is an inside joke for us, Trekkies, but it has got a connection to Hitchhiker - as I explained. So it was a joke (made upon a joke). I understand you not getting it if you aren't Trekkie, but is not to be meant seriously - which is what I tried to explain by giving the link. Anyway, merry Christmas and happy new year!
Here's a question for that super computer: _"Why?"_ That or _"Why life, the universe, and everything?"_ It would be hard to answer those questions with a number.
Wrong, the one for him was Fenchurch. Trillian was only in the story to make Zaphod look like a jerk for stealing a girl from a boring guy. They wanted the movie to fit in 90 minutes so they cut huge chunks out of the story.
I mean, Fenchurch didn't appear until the third book but yeah you're right. The movie wanted Trillian as his love interest because it thought the plot wasn't interesting enough without a live interest. They thought Dent needed some character motivation
42 or 2A "*" or *.* Something Marvin should have chimed in on. I over thought it. though the 42 was miss pronounced as a number but rather meant "For Tea Two" or tea for two possibly meaning life is better shared rather than a singular lonely existence.
The answer to the "everything" in the universe is MATH Number the alphabets from a-z abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz M=13 A=1 T=20 H=8 Now add them together 13+1+20+8=42
It’s possibly related : in the Bible, the Gospels claim that Jesus was born being the 14th 14th 14th generation from Abraham. IE, Jesus is the 42nd generation from Abraham. So the answer is Jesus 😅
The real answer is time if you think 🤔 about it the 42 + 42 is 84 which is the average life for a human. And 42 is a half of 84 which is a fun fact that you spend awake the other half is asleep so 42 years of life which all a number really. So the true answer is time.
I still find it hard to believe that they managed to make such a terribly weak movie out of such an excellent book (well, really 'radio series', if we're going back to the original). If you want something visual, The BBC TV version is way better, despite potato special effects, and a budget probably about 1% of the movie.
Being really pretentious here, but in Christian theology 7 is the number of perfection / divinity, and 6 is the imperfect number of man, one shy of perfection (which is kinda dumb because 6 appears a lot in nature, mainly because it creates remarkable stable geometries like the hexagon, it's hardly "imperfect" but i digress), so 42, the product of 6 and 7 can be representative of the metaphysical union of man / life and the universe / God / whatever intangible greater thing there is or isn't. IDK I think that's some food for thought even though Douglass Adams picked 42 for no real reason at all.
@@Luke_H. I know I was pulling some deep meaning behind 42 out of my ass. I am very aware it's an intentionally absurd answer it's just a fun excersize.
Well. Number 3 in the Bible represents Divine Perfection The Holy Trio ( The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit ) The Number 3 is an important number in the Bible, it plays the role of resurrection and others. Here is an example of 3 being a useful number: 3 gifts for newborn Jesus, after 3 days Mary and Joseph found Jesus teaching the people, 3 years in the ministry of Jesus, Jesus was tempted by satan 3 times, Jesus 3 favorite disciples were Peter, James and John that brought them to the garden. 3 people rose from the dead by Jesus, Peter denied jesus 3 times and Jesus showed love to peter 3 times. Jesus prayed 3 times before resurrection, Jesus fell down 3 times, 3 cross ( Jesus was in the middle ) 3 languages were written on top of the cross, at 3 pm when Jesus died at the cross, after 3 days Jesus was risen from the dead, Angels cry 3 times, Noah have 3 sons, Jonah was in the belly of whale for 3 days and God, Jesus, Righteous people and others are in the 3rd Heaven. When God and Jesus repeated the words 3 times, it is most likely to be important Holy, holy, holy - to praise the power of God The universe consists of three ( Visible matter-Dark Matter-Dark Energy ) The atom particles are three ( Proton-Neutron-Electron ) also in nucleus of atom which are proton and neutron also made up of THREE quarks. Earth is being THIRD planet, we live in the 3RD Dimension, Earth’s 3 main layers ( Crust-Mantle-Core ) i know theres an outer mantle but i don’t care its still a mantle. 0 + 1 + 2 = 3 (3 is the only number that equals to the number 0,1 and 2) The concept of 3-6-9 proves that the number 3 is powerful Pythagoros had no favorite number, all numbers are deeply significant, but in their eyes, number 3 is the perfect number it is the only a small number but creates a pattern. Water - Ice - Steam God the father = Water God the Son = Ice God the holy spirit = Steam Yolk - White - Shell God the father = Yolk God the son = White God the holy spirit = Shell Even Humans including you... we are all in 3 parts. Body/Flesh - Soul - Spirit so... don’t forget the number 3. remember, Number 3.
While the dialogue in this is fairly sweet, having read the book first I truly just don't see Trillian as a "romantic interest" of Arthur's. I don't know, that's just my take on it.
Been answered. The 42nd character of ascii is *. * is known as a wildcard when concerning computer. Therefore the actual answer to the ultimate question is whatever you want it to be.
bubbahyde THIS is the actual reason the number was chosen
Because Douglas liked all this codijng stuff
And honestly its one of my favourite jokes
@steve gale the rate of expansion is good but philosophically the programming joke is better
@steve gale You were* (not was) also wrong. Not sure where you got that idea from but you should really stop acting all smug because its BS. He already confirmed the reason he chose 42. He said: "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 it out. End of story."
steve gale i don’t think it has anything to do with that. If the universe keeps expanding at an accelerated rate that does not mean that if it wasn’t so the universe wouldn’t exist. That’s like saying that if you hadn’t brought a water bottle to a race you wouldn’t have started it. It has nothing to do with that.
The answer to life, the universe and everything has to do with something that connects everything. The only thing that everything has in common is that everything is made of the same stuff and that everything exists.
The reason for existence might be that beings from a superior plane of existence decided just for the heck of it to bootstrap the universe into existence.
Existence is the objective. Everyone wants to keep existing. So that is the objetive and therefore the answer. Existence is the question and the answer.
Its how much value you give to random thing like number 42
The Question is: "Pick a number. Any number."
This is evidenced when Marvin, with a brain the size of a planet, asks a mattress to pick a number, any number. It guesses 5, and Marvin responds that is wrong. It was supposed to pick a different number.
It was supposed to pick 42.
Ovni Where did Marven speak to a mattress? I just read the book there was no such scene
@@joeknow3712 there was. The mattress was a wild animal. It was very funny.
im late Where tho, at what scene, what was the context?
@@joeknow3712 in the books... Something the movie forget to read....
@@imlate-official3714 No I read the book, what Im saying is where in the book is this, what context?
The mistake that the mice made was that they asked a computer what the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything was, and naturally, the answer was a number. Simple, logical, and completely unusuable for any non-digital being. When they built Earth, they were using a biological computer, a living thing to figure out the question. As we see here, the question he comes up with is one much better suited for living things. At least, for non-sociopaths.
Ahh, but what happens when the Golgafrinchan's landed on Earth? The entire "program" would have "glitched" and the answer is ?
@@neil999ish well the answer becomes wrong at that point, as Dent is Arthur is a descendant of humans and Golgafrinchans, he is a glitch in the code, so when he pulls a random set of letters out of a scrabble bag in an attempt to solve the puzzle of 42, the answer is "What is six times nine?" which is obviously wrong.
@@jameslamberton7671 it's not wrong, there just isn't any deeper meaning to it. That's the whole point of the entire series: that life is absurd and random, and there isn't any special meaning to be found. Sure, from a mathematical perspective it's wrong, but this was a philosophical question. What do you get when you multiply six by nine? Forty-two. What does it mean? Nothing at all, and that's why it's funny.
When I was around 5, I saw this scene, and while it scared me at the time I always remembered it, but I had no idea where it came from. It's plagued me my whole life, asking friends and family to no avail, "Do you remember a scene from a movie where two rodents were trying to steal a man's brain with circular saws?" This question has plagued me for the better part of 2 decades, and today I finished reading the book. Upon feeling something familiar at the book scene, it was when I saw that it was adapted for the screen on the front blurb that I realized that I might have the answer, and I was right.
Unlike the book itself, I know both the question and the answer.
"What movie had a scene where two rodents were trying to steal a man's brain with circular saws?"
"The movie adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Aha funny... I had a similar experience with a song that I heard only twice on the radio in the 90s when growing up as a kid. When I was like 23, I finally found the title of the song, Missing by Everything but the Girl. The reason I could never find it was because I was mishearing the lyrics as a kid... I thought she was saying "The deserts mystery" but it actually went "The deserts misses the rain".
You should have been listening to the radio play in 1979 then.
You're literally me. Except i remembered the scene where Ford squeezes a lemon to make Zaphod think. I googled it and found out what movie that was, and that there's also a book. Been a huge fan ever since. Also watched the bbc series, highly recommend. It aged like fine wine. Even the special effects, the decorations. It all looks wonderful. As well as acting and humour. So great. Also the script is fairly true to the book.
@MrPilotStunts the BBC series was complete rubbish. Trillian a bleached blond with an american accent? I don't think. And the moron David Dixon who played Ford was a complete disgrace. Even Mark's portrayal of Zaphod was lame. It was like they were reading the lines for the very first time. You are remembering something that never happened. Or you don't care about the story.
Thanks for the laugh! Glad you figured it out eventually.
Back in the 1980s, my dad tried to record a Hitchcock film, Shadow of a Doubt, on TV to watch later. He got all of it but the last 15 minutes, which of course meant that it cut off while the murderer was going after the hero. It being the 1980s, it took him months to find it in a library so he could finish the movie. 🤣🤣🤣
42 was chosen by Adams at random.
The question is 6*9
Some people say this is because Arthur Dent was a contamination in the program and thus never had the question.
Others argue this is to indicate the universe isn't supposed to make sense.
Regardless, Adams went on to write in another book from the series that the Universe doesn't make sense, and if anyone ever found a way for it to make sense, it would reset itself in an even less sensible way
To add to that, "what's the answer to life, the universe and everything" is a stupid question. It's stupid because there is no one single answer to everything, so even the best computer in the universe would come up with a bullshit answer like 42.
6*9 is 54
@@skylerdale5351
In the book/tv adaptation, the answer is 42.
Arthur and Ford finally find the "question" and it is 6 times 9.
To which they note they had always figured there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Arthur dent came up with the question "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" while pulling scrabble tiles out of a bag, however somewhere else in the book it is revealed that the Golgafrinchians came and wiped out human life on Earth and replaced it with themselves, which corrupted the program. I honestly think that this corruption only modified the question a little bit, such that the original question was actually "What do you get if you multiply six by seven?" Still doesn't really make any sense to the ultimate problem of life, the universe, and everything.
Haha, nice.
How about, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
European or African swallow?
CaptainViral84 I don't know thaAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
depends, is it carrying a coconut??
Fun fact a European swallows air speed velocity is actually 42 wing beats per minute.
What is it for an African swallow?
"Take his brain!" .... the way she said it. Awesome.
I low key love how much this movie lives rent free in the minds of so many HGttG TV show fans 😄
The movie is good but the BBC series will always be the best version.
Wait, THERE WAS A TV SHOW?
@@pioneer_1148 meh
@@primoridalspatula663It's very... of it's time. In a good way.
But very of it's time.
Trillian's kiss on 0:42, when Arthur says 42.
At second 42
Interesting, Love when you add up the numbers that represent each letter equals 54, which is what Arthur came up with in the original Hitchhiker's series when he drew letters out of a bag =P
What? 🤣 it was 42.
@@TastyTrees916 sorry, you're right, typo
4 years ago 😊
@@TastyTrees916 In base 13 you would be right
@@toddkes5890 we do not make jokes in base 13
Guy:How was your day?
Arthur:I had to argue with the creators of Earth not to take my brain.
Guy:Creator's of the Earth?
Arthur:They were mice.
Guy:????
They weren't the creators, they watchers essentially. The creator of the earth was Deep Thought.
@@wanderinwolf3804 deep thought designed the earth
Magrathians created it
@@Ponlets we will devolve into a battle of semantics if we go back and forth. Deep Thought created, ie devised and actually created the plan for Earth, and the Magratheans built the Earth from Deep Thoughts plans. Deep Thought is the creator while the Magratheans are the builders.
@@wanderinwolf3804 deep thought may design it but magrathians created it
Even says so in the book
@@Ponlets lol did you even read what I said? I said Deep Thought is the creator while the Magratheans were the builders. There is a difference between creating and building. You can create something without actually building it, in this case the plans on how to build the computer, without these plans it wouldn't have been a computer to calculate the ultimate question, and without the builders, the plans would have been left at that plans.
So yes, Magratheans built the Earth, based off Deep Thoughts plans, but Deep Thought is the one who actually created the Earth.
I love how they go from, “Let’s not kill him” to “TAKE HIS BRAIN” cause he was in love xD
"Oh bollocks" traps the mice under a tea cup
Not trapped, SQUISHED!! mouse patties!
The forced love story bugs the hell out of me. They had one brief meeting at a party and barely spoke to each other from the time they got picked up to the time of this scene.
Agreed!
"TAKE HIS BRAIN."
bob boberson READ the Books Booberson
The book is the original, dumbass. Excluding the radio show, of course.
bob boberson it's not forced you've clearly never read the books. Though this movie may condense a a few of them and misses out their kid
What is six by nine? Yes.
+Ethan Hendren , in base 13.
Douglas Adams didn't write jokes in base 13.
This actually makes sense biblically.
@@Mikewee777 "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." - Adams
Ultimate Question how many roads must a man walk down, The answer 42
What's interesting about this is how the story ends, with earth 2.0 or whatever. 42 is definitely a meme, so it actually fits into the idea that they would literally remake an entire planet just for Martin.
"What is the smallest integer that theoretically can be expressed as the sum of the cubes of three integers, but has no known solution for those cubes as of yet"?
Is it 42?
6X9
Marvin is the only one who knows the ultimate question.
Martin Freeman is such a good actor damn
42 pictures in picture in Hala Stvoření.
“What is 6 times 7?” Sadly That is the question. 7 on 6 sides of a cube.
not 6*7
6*9
‘What is this “is she the one” tripe?’ - gold
They're Pinky... They're Pinky and the Brain , Brain , Brain , Brain , Brain !
OK, the author said he would take this secret to the grave in an interview once. Keep in mind the phrase in the book "Don't panic and carry a towel" The Tao is a book of Eastern Philosophy which Douglas Adams was familiar with. Many pronounce it sounding much like the word Towel, mainly in Britian. It's more correct to pronounce it with a "D" like the word "dow" but the "T" is more popular. Just like the word OM is a westernized version of the word AUM, it was thought to be easier for westerners to pronounce although reducing it so removes the meaning carried by the letters A-U-M. (Tons of material out there if you want more about that just search)
The 42nd chapter of the Tao is as follows:
The Tao produced One; One produced Two;
Two produced Three;
Three produced All things.
All things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness (into which they have emerged), while they are harmonised by the Breath of Vacancy.
What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves; and yet these are the designations which kings and princes use for themselves. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.
What other men (thus) teach, I also teach. The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.
There are many translations of this however all are basicaly the same. It starts with the beginning of all things and finishes with how to lead your life. This nutshell of a chapter in the Tao was important to Adams. He aledgedly did share this with a friend before his passing and comfirmed the whole bit about 42 was a reference to the 42nd chapter of the Tao, as well as the phrase "Don't panic a carry a towel (Tao)"
Just my two cents. It's how I understand it and what it means to me but you do you and I'll do me! Find your own meaning if needed.
Peace and Love my friends!
He chose 42 because it was funny. ""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 it out. End of story." Whatever rumor you heard saying otherwise is just a lie created by someone who wants their bullshit to be true.
@@godlyhugo Interesting. Not what I read at all. I would provide the source but it was over 20 years ago. You do you and I'll do me. Peace
Right now, he is sitting up there at the Pearly Gates, eating Vanilla Ice Cream, laughing his head off at how massive his joke has developed into this massive cultural fascination it has become.
And those mice, those wicked, evil little walking dustballs.... I'll sic my cats on them!
@@Nighthawke70rodents are allusion on hierarchy's tops who like to spend their accumulated wealth on something greater-than-life that they don't want to understand, something big and shiny and allowed only for them to benefit from. Naturally someone tricks them into investing all they've got into this fluke of an entity which takes ridiculous amount of time to produce and if somehow they're not long dead by the time of release, it just spells gibberish and then promise something even greater, even more exclusive, only now it will cost them everything, reducing them from true tops to rodents. Setting them up for eventual demise.
@@oldmetalhippyoldmetalhippy1971Hah!
Can't accept it?
I heard that 42 was simply the mlst boring number Douglas could think of
Sometimes reality is mundane, but no less beautiful for it. What's the answer? It's 42.
Why though? Who the hell knows
The answer to life = to keep the universe going
It was 54. Also both number sets refer to randomizers : 42=Dice and 54=Card deck. However , this video clip dropped a huge plot hole regarding Fenchurch.
'TAKE HIS BRAIN!!!" LOL
No joke I searched for this scene for like 8 years
Suddenly there are so many scientist in the comment section -__-
Go to a military video, lots of experts that couldn't tell you what an obstacle course looks like, but they are experts in everything else.
42? None the less. So long and "Thanks for all the fish!"
Exactly. 2024 Goodbye
Rapture of the Christian fish.
12/8/24
To be exact.
That’s for you
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Take his brain! hE dOnT kNoW hOw tO uSe hIs bRaIn.
Fame leads to pride.
Pride leads to satisfaction.
Satisfaction leads to happiness.
ThePreciseClimber truth
ThePreciseClimber and yet fame has caused less happiness than its caused.
Tell that to Robin Williams or Chris Cornell
Katie Bayliss life rly knows how to be cruel, doesnt it?
Lie
I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.
the ultimate question why is the answer 42 haha . "what i woulda asked that big computer"
The answer is 42 because its the future and the computer uses Google
There's a way to relax the spine so is that you can slide down a horizontal surface and out of the chair
“Take his brain!” 😂😂😂
This just made me more afraid of mice now. Oh, dear.
42...old programming coding language...anything you want it to be=meaning of life
The moment you realize that's Bilbo Baggins.
If the Ultimate Question and the Answer to the Question were to exist in the same space-time the Galaxy would collapse and Life would cease to exist.
possibly how many simulator God machines their are in the omni verse or how many pyramaids there are to be the guide way to the other omni verses 52
Fade to black, "Morgan freeman voice" - But they did indeed take the brain.
I'v read the book & seen the movie. Randomly if someone asks me a question. I will answer 42. It's funnier if I don't explane it.
Razitor X sounds pretty funny
It is funny but I wont either.
Please nobody like this any further.
Bilbo bagins
Ill always be disappointed that they never made the sequel
TAKE HIS BRAIN!
funny that in the books marvin saw the answer in his head as soon as he met him
comments: *philosophise over the number
D.Adams: "It's a funny number, it even feels funny saying it: for-tee-too..."
Six by nine equals forty two if you use base thirteen. This was pointed out in the annotated radio scripts.
Tinkly and the brain
We dont want to be happy, we want to be famous.... felt that before, changed my mind now
42 is the average EU shoe size
after watching this I decided to watch the movie.
afterwards: well that's one weird movie
and now I'm jealous.
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1: 06 my reaction was "Famous for WHAT, exactly?"
Which number is the product of the 2^0 th, the 2^1 th and the 2^2 th prime number ?
6*9
"Take the brain!" 🧠
As he mentioned in several interviews (and in "The Salmon of Doubt", IIRC), Douglas Adams specifically picked a boring number (42) because he didn't want the "big joke" (that the answer to life, the universe and everything could be a single _number)_ to be hidden behind a "small joke" (a funny or "weird" number).
So, what does every comment section about that joke turn into? A bunch of people coming up with reasons for why 42 is funny and /or deeply meaningful. 🙄
There are still people who seriously believed 6 x 9 was the real answer too, despite the fact that the same book that answer came from was explaining how humans aren't natives to Earth, therefore mostly not part of the system.
She is the ONE.
For as much as a lot of people hate this movie, at least it's better than the first attempt.
Depends what you want out of the movie or TV series. It's way better for production values (understandably for time and budget), but I'm a fan of Hitchhiker's for the jokes, and the movie cut too many out (amongst other issues) for me to consider it better!
How does Watson Know what's the Answer of life?
"Take his brain!"
:P
Yes. Zombie brain 42 becomes 24. 2024
“How many of versions of each sentient creature, treated as an assembly of molecules, are statistically most likely to exist within the universe?”
✓ Life.
✓ The Universe.
✓ Everything.
Nah. Too complicated. A god who's last message to its creation was "We apologize for the inconveniences" wouldn't make the question to his creation that complicated
fake Arthur: is she the one--ME: BOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOO I SAY.
sorry martin, you can act, but they gave you a rotting pile of mink entrails instead of a script.
How many spots on a pair of dice?
The question is: “What is the meaning of YOUR life?”
Think about it.
I would have asked how was the universe created and what existed before that?
God created the universe.
Except he didnt.
Universally it is accepted that a "Big Bang" created the universe, an occurence, where the entire matter of the universe was compromised in one infinetly small point and immediately after "becoming" began expanding away from one another due to the coloumb powers.
The state of existence before that is widely argued about, however most (relevant) people believe, that it is the exact same as beyond the borders of the known universe (not the observable one mind you) - a void state of nothingness, where the laws of physics as we know them do not exist.
People who claim some kind of omnipotent individual started creation clearly do not possess the mental capacity needed to comprehend basic scientific theories. However, I always enjoy leaving them in their own small fantasy world with plushy unicorns, water that changes its atomic structure to become an alcoholic beverage and dead people reanimating.
Devon Steyn god isn't real
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Clearly, something was around before God xD
Zaizen Tosuke, The answer should be 42.
Wtf is Summer, Watson, and two speaking mice with a torture device doing in the same room??
Taking over the world Binky....taking over THE WORLD!!!
TAKE HIS BRAIN
Sam and Zooey
Actually, the answer is 47 now... it used to be 42, but, you know, inflation is a b****
@steve gale memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/47
Its a joke between Trekkies
@steve gale If you'd actually looked at the web page I provided the klink for, you'd had read that in Star Trek, the number 47 is used quite frequently (and its variants: 74, 1947...). It all comes down to a joke by one of the producers who attended a college, where there was a club/society, which jokingly claimed that all numbers are equal to 47 and that 47 occurs more frequently in the universe than other numbers (hence the frequent occurence in Star Trek).
The other producers quickly caught on and another once jokingly stated that 47 is 42 corrected for inflation.
@steve gale Considering that this video is about the number 42 (how it is not the answer - that it is love) to which I jokingly provided another answer - the number 47 and you objected to it, then I believe it is relevant.
Now, I did not know that Adams used 42 because it was/is thought to be the expansion rate of the universe, many people just appreciate the joke: The ultimate answer is just some kind of number, so I thank you for this piece of information. I suppose it makes more sense if it is actually something, but even then the answer to the universe can hardly be its expansion rate. The joke is the complex question having so simple - nonsensical answer.
Arthur is essentially saying that the answer is love - another simple answer, albeit he says it in a rather complex way, and for some people that can actually fit as the ultimate answer to life, universe and everything.
What I did, was reject the in-universe Artur's answer and give another number, which is an inside joke for us, Trekkies, but it has got a connection to Hitchhiker - as I explained.
So it was a joke (made upon a joke). I understand you not getting it if you aren't Trekkie, but is not to be meant seriously - which is what I tried to explain by giving the link.
Anyway, merry Christmas and happy new year!
What do you get if you multiply six by nine in base thirteen?
Here's a question for that super computer: _"Why?"_
That or _"Why life, the universe, and everything?"_ It would be hard to answer those questions with a number.
42 pictures in picture in ..
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This is why the movie couldn't be made while Adams was alive.
What a disgrace.
Wrong, the one for him was Fenchurch. Trillian was only in the story to make Zaphod look like a jerk for stealing a girl from a boring guy. They wanted the movie to fit in 90 minutes so they cut huge chunks out of the story.
I mean, Fenchurch didn't appear until the third book but yeah you're right. The movie wanted Trillian as his love interest because it thought the plot wasn't interesting enough without a live interest. They thought Dent needed some character motivation
Brilliant, Watson!
You're Heisenberg
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W r o n g . It's always 42 and always will be.
The 42 thing was a joke calm down people
It's a cosmic joke.
at what age will you become aware of the cosmos
Any age, if you try hard enough.
42 or 2A "*" or *.* Something Marvin should have chimed in on. I over thought it. though the 42 was miss pronounced as a number but rather meant "For Tea Two" or tea for two possibly meaning life is better shared rather than a singular lonely existence.
The answer to the "everything" in the universe is MATH
Number the alphabets from a-z
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
M=13
A=1
T=20
H=8
Now add them together 13+1+20+8=42
It’s possibly related : in the Bible, the Gospels claim that Jesus was born being the 14th 14th 14th generation from Abraham. IE, Jesus is the 42nd generation from Abraham. So the answer is Jesus 😅
that guy died after the video ended
42 becomes 24 2024 Everybody dies on a birthday. 12/8/24
Did Arthur (book version) realy loved Trillian?
A little I think but Fenchurch was the one he truly loved
-8 is fasting
The real answer is time if you think 🤔 about it the 42 + 42 is 84 which is the average life for a human. And 42 is a half of 84 which is a fun fact that you spend awake the other half is asleep so 42 years of life which all a number really. So the true answer is time.
if you sleep for 12 hours a day, it's time for you to drink more coffee :)
The ultimate question as a kid was to pull the finger or not?
The answer is really “tea for two” not “forty two”
I feel personally offended.
The answer is 42. The question is "Doctor Who?".
Hmm...asmr is getting weirder by the minute or i accidentally hit a different video.
I still find it hard to believe that they managed to make such a terribly weak movie out of such an excellent book (well, really 'radio series', if we're going back to the original). If you want something visual, The BBC TV version is way better, despite potato special effects, and a budget probably about 1% of the movie.
So, how many roads must a man walk down?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.
42
Being really pretentious here, but in Christian theology 7 is the number of perfection / divinity, and 6 is the imperfect number of man, one shy of perfection (which is kinda dumb because 6 appears a lot in nature, mainly because it creates remarkable stable geometries like the hexagon, it's hardly "imperfect" but i digress), so 42, the product of 6 and 7 can be representative of the metaphysical union of man / life and the universe / God / whatever intangible greater thing there is or isn't.
IDK I think that's some food for thought even though Douglass Adams picked 42 for no real reason at all.
Sorry but no, the question was "what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?"
@@Luke_H. I know I was pulling some deep meaning behind 42 out of my ass. I am very aware it's an intentionally absurd answer it's just a fun excersize.
Well. Number 3 in the Bible represents Divine Perfection
The Holy Trio ( The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit )
The Number 3 is an important number in the Bible, it plays the role of resurrection and others.
Here is an example of 3 being a useful number:
3 gifts for newborn Jesus, after 3 days Mary and Joseph found Jesus teaching the people, 3 years in the ministry of Jesus, Jesus was tempted by satan 3 times, Jesus 3 favorite disciples were Peter, James and John that brought them to the garden. 3 people rose from the dead by Jesus, Peter denied jesus 3 times and Jesus showed love to peter 3 times. Jesus prayed 3 times before resurrection, Jesus fell down 3 times, 3 cross ( Jesus was in the middle ) 3 languages were written on top of the cross, at 3 pm when Jesus died at the cross, after 3 days Jesus was risen from the dead, Angels cry 3 times, Noah have 3 sons, Jonah was in the belly of whale for 3 days and God, Jesus, Righteous people and others are in the 3rd Heaven.
When God and Jesus repeated the words 3 times, it is most likely to be important
Holy, holy, holy - to praise the power of God
The universe consists of three ( Visible matter-Dark Matter-Dark Energy )
The atom particles are three ( Proton-Neutron-Electron )
also in nucleus of atom which are proton and neutron also made up of THREE quarks.
Earth is being THIRD planet, we live in the 3RD Dimension, Earth’s 3 main layers ( Crust-Mantle-Core ) i know theres an outer mantle but i don’t care its still a mantle.
0 + 1 + 2 = 3 (3 is the only number that equals to the number 0,1 and 2)
The concept of 3-6-9 proves that the number 3 is powerful
Pythagoros had no favorite number, all numbers are deeply significant, but in their eyes, number 3 is the perfect number it is the only a small number but creates a pattern.
Water - Ice - Steam
God the father = Water
God the Son = Ice
God the holy spirit = Steam
Yolk - White - Shell
God the father = Yolk
God the son = White
God the holy spirit = Shell
Even Humans including you...
we are all in 3 parts.
Body/Flesh - Soul - Spirit
so... don’t forget the number 3.
remember, Number 3.
While the dialogue in this is fairly sweet, having read the book first I truly just don't see Trillian as a "romantic interest" of Arthur's. I don't know, that's just my take on it.
Listen to all of the Radio series. Trillian was most definitely a love interest, until Fenchurch.
When Zooey Deschanel is present she’s always going to be a love interest.
answer is X=X. which by itself is not answer. life is subjective. question and answer will be subjective.
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The answer IS 42.
The question is what do you get when you multiply six by nine.