what IS the Question??
2006-10-31 23:56:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well Douglas Adams ( God rest his soul) knows now...
2006-11-01 00:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by andy c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If youre referring to the movie hitchikers guide to the galaxy, the question was never formulated. Remember deep thaught designed the super intellent computer to calculate the question but zaphod destroyed earth to make way for a intergalactic bypass, not realising that earth was in the middle of a process of calculating the ultimate question to life, the universe & everything.
Of course in the end the planet is restored back to its original place except that the 2 mice get killed, renderring the whole question finding objective meaningless since they were the ones who asked the question in the first place & were meant to become part of earths operational matrix in order to calculate the ultimate question.
Made sense? Good!
2006-11-01 00:12:51 · answer #2 · answered by Claude 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything' - thats the question.
'42' - thats the answer
Couldn't be much more simple, really.
2006-11-01 00:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by hedzyhedzy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
6*7=
2006-11-01 00:05:35 · answer #4 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The mice decided that it was 'How many roads must a man walk down?'
The movie was a bit s****, unfortunately. (That's the s-word with an added 'e', to reflect my Irishness.) The whole thing is of course a parable for the fact that if you want to get a sensible answer, you had better ask sensible questions, which this particular question, although well-meaning, was not, really. (Reason: too ambiguous, implied ignorance in questioner, which was doubtless not intended.)
2006-11-01 14:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What's the most dumb-as-*** answer one can come up with that doesn't answer the question of Life, the Universe and Everything?
2006-11-02 01:47:13 · answer #6 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Arthur Dent would tell you the question is "What do you get when you multiply 6x9?". This proved to him his belief that there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe but Ford Prefect felt that that was just perfectly normal paranoia.
2006-11-01 00:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by leekier 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as you know the Computer created to answer your question (Planet Earth) was destroyed to make way for an Intergalactic Highway, so until it's replacement is commissioned and the program rerun we don't know!
My guess is however it's 'How many violation notices can you get before you get suspended?'
2006-11-01 00:08:21 · answer #8 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer was really 54 - the question should have been - 'what is 6 x 9'.
2006-11-01 00:45:06 · answer #9 · answered by blokeoaf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is 6 X 7! If you've read the book, the computer complained that the question was too vague.
2006-11-01 20:14:27 · answer #10 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the two cannot exist in the same universe. The second they do the universe they exist in cancels it self out and we move to a new one with either a different answer or question? i think.........
2006-11-01 21:31:49 · answer #11 · answered by Who Cares 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋