From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 18 3:43:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4D2150D7 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hiwaay.net) Received: from tnt6-216-180-5-246.dialup.HiWAAY.net (tnt6-216-180-5-246.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.5.246]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id FAA19027; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:43:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 05:43:05 -0600 (CST) From: Kris Kirby To: David Greenman Cc: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft go it right ;-) In-Reply-To: <200001180432.UAA10153@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >"42" is the answer to "What is the meaning of life?" (at least for > >earthlings). The mice contracted to have earth built in order to > > Actually, it was "...life, the universe, and everything". > > >determine what the real question was. However just moments before the > >conclusion of the experiment popped into Arthur Dent's head ("what is 6 > >times 7?") his house was destroyed to make way for a bypass. Then > >moments later the earth was destroyed by a Vogon construction crew to > >make way for an intergalactic bypass. Fourty-two is the answer that Deep Thought comes up with to the question: "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?" The mice commissioned the planet-builders to build a computer (planet) that would calculate the question as to why it came up with 42. And, through a strange misadventure (a whole trilogy of them ;-) Arthur comes to find that the question is: "What is six times seven?" --- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "God gave them the ability to reproduce... ... Science gave us the hope they won't." -KBK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message