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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by NeedMoreTea on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @01:18PM (#21138725)
That's on IIRC the Earth 2 in its very early existence and Arthur and Ford start pulling scrabble letters from the bag...

I guess it has a few million years to run to resolve to the correct question. :)

Presumably the mice would then require a third supercomputer to tell them why this is the most important question of life, the universe, and - you know - everything.

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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by shkkmo on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:36PM (#21140012)
Isn't it also implied that the question was wrong because humans weren't supposed to land on the earth in the first place and serve as a bug in the calculations?
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Re:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody ... by UncleSlacky on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:04PM (#21140236)
The reason the question came out wrong is because Arthur is descended from the Golgafrinchans, not the native ape-men, i.e. the program was corrupted early on.
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