I just realized how good Heimers quote really is

TheWizardM·10/24/2019, 10:56:52 AM·1 votes·884 views

Specifically the quote '42, I knew it! Now what was the question again?" At first I thought it was just a silly reference to 42 being the answer to life, the universe, and everything, as his other quote (42, there's just something about that number) is, but this quote as actually much, much better. In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the running jokes is that this supercomputer Deep Thought came up with the answer 42 to the question "what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?", but that it's creators didn't understand what the hell that even meant, so they built another computer, Earth, to figure out what that question even meant in the first place. Earth was unfortunately destroyed just before it reached an answer. Either way, this quote doesn't just reference that first gag, but also that they don't even know what the question really is.

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TheWizardM10/24/2019, 11:00:41 AM1 votes

P.S. I really, really recommend the radio show 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" if you like absurdist humor. You can probably find a download of it somewhere if you look for BBC Radio 4 Hitchhiker's Guide download or smth similar. It's actually multiple radio shows, but they're all really good.