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Re:Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout by Fjolsvith on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:46AM (#20438651)
Meh. Its a numbers thing. 42nd Street, 42 years (to the day) since the last big blackout, 42k people without power.

What else does the number 42 signify?

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Re:Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout by alexkavon on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:24AM (#20439231)
How many roads must a man walk down? What is 6 x 7? How many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb? What's yellow and dangerous? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27...

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Re:Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout by Fjolsvith on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:37PM (#20444363)
Who's the 42nd President?
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Re:Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout by credit_guy on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:00AM (#20438706)
Well, of course 42 is an encoding of the number of the beast 6x6+6.

See also

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/24uio5/the_tru...

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Re:Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout by pssflops on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:51AM (#20440789)
The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life.
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