the answer to life, universe and everything

[@DaneofHalves]

I like the lone guy in the crowd: "FOURTY-TWO?!" lmao

[@pbdye1607]

RUBBISH!

[@Killenmachine05]

great reference to the original scene

[@jgb8038]

Everyone likes him, he's a likeable guy. except when the issue of fourty two is brought up

[@Killenmachine05]

@Bret Bouder what are you trying to achieve

[@cozz124]

@@Killenmachine05 42

[@ToTeMVG]

its funny how people mention how 42 has all these different meanings, but the author picked it at literal random

[@ahcokris]

tell that to Mulder ;)

[@gittyupalice96]

people choose to give meaning to what they want to believe.

[@yourmeister]

He didn't pick it, he calculated it because he is a part of the computer named Earth

[@gabrielclark1425]

Exactly, the author *picked* it. The only meaning in life is what *we* give it.

[@wildste]

Such as Stephen Fry. He was a close friend of Douglas and he said that Douglas told him the actual meaning behind it, but its not his place to disclose it

[@dpage446]

This was my favourite line in the books next to "In the beginning the universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move."

[@kparker2430]

you read the books, tell me you can not stand this version of HHG and what was the point of it if it brought nothing to the table ( please ) because i can not stand this crap and am staggered by the fkrs who can.

[@dpage446]

@@kparker2430 haven't seen the full movie,sorry

[@Ultrasemen]

@@kparker2430 I remembered that movie had some kind of chamber with two philosophers coming to talk to computer that's going to make them obsolete, like in a book. Apparently that's not the case. Ah, the sweet Mandela effect.

[@Ultrasemen]

@@kparker2430 yeah, the book is much better than the movie, but I guess it's good enough for people who never read the book.

[@bloopboop9320]

@@Ultrasemen i remember reading all of the books and thought the movie wasnt too far off from the books. In terms of humour and plot points it is pretty much the same. Have you watched the original BBC show?

[@malharmazumdar3731]

Can't believe they didn't include the part in the books where after receiving the answer 42, the two questioners say "We're gonna get lynched aren't we" I laughed so hard at that

[@raven4k998]

just one question why does the supercomputer have to look like a person sitting there thinking?

[@kaikollas]

@@raven4k998 why not?

[@raven4k998]

@@kaikollaswhy not make it look like a soda machine why a person sitting there thinking I am just curious why no one has ever made a computer case look like that yet because I would buy it to make my computer inside can you imagine the conversations that thing would bring up? so your computer looks like it's thinking yeah, she's always thinking got a lot to think about🤣🤣🤣

[@jessestreet2549]

@@kaikollas interesting. that's the same answer The Universe's Oldest Being said when Simon Wagstaff asked it "why are we born to suffer and die?".

[@kaikollas]

@@jessestreet2549 exactly

[@ExplosiveDevil]

She literally says that they arent gonna like it. So why are they surprised?

[@Hater20X]

Because everyone was expecting something real and understandable. Even if they were expecting that the answer was "the meaning of life is meaningless" at least they would know and understand. But 42 is just nothing. It makes absolutely no sense to the question. Which is really funny.

[@sthamansinha243]

@@Hater20X You missed the point. The point is that the question is meaningless not the answer

[@KookieOCE]

42 in computer lagnauge is literallly a * which means nothing, it literally means its whatever you mean it to be (in computer terms)

[@everythingstemdottech692]

@@Hater20X No, no, it makes sense... 41 would be too small, and 43 is too big.

[@ethandew1768]

Exactly its supposed to say that as humans our desire for answers overpowers the actual answers, we are plauged with the things we know and things we dont know

[@armechaia4646]

I’d be so annoyed if some ultimate being was about to answer the the question to life and it’s interrupted by the sounds of billions of people cheering

[@Mohjo19]

Welcome to Brazil

[@DarwinskiYT]

@@Mohjo19 does that happen often in Brazil?

[@Mohjo19]

@@DarwinskiYT Every sport here has at leas 100 people screaming their lungs out

[@yurirollrrir1807]

@@DarwinskiYT more often than it should

[@matheussiqueira8929]

@@Mohjo19Not just in sports, hehe, every crowd situation

[@Spacegoat92]

When I turn 42 and people ask for my age I will say "that is the ultimate question"...

[@anna_9195]

Omg xDDD

[@andrew4029]

Well played, sir.

[@TheMelbournelad]

Gold

[@pawebojarski8400]

answer*, holy shit, 42 is the answer you dumb fuck

[@medexamtoolscom]

What will you say when you turn 69?

[@fadedmass1662]

True story, my brother passed from leukemia when young. My mother would ask him "how much do you love me?" His answer was always 42, everytime, till the end. Twenty years later this movie comes out and blew my mind. My family has always scene the number 42 as somehow important and synonymous with love.

[@NoFloridaMan]

So funny, my son has always use the number 62 for large quantities or if we asked him how much do you love me.

[@StarboyXL9]

Obviously fake

[@fadedmass1662]

@@StarboyXL9 obviously a toxic troll...

[@nihilistcoomergang7046]

I mean, the first book did come out in 1979, sooo, he could’ve been a fan of the books? Still a great story though.

[@zacharynguyen7286]

Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe. If you need to talk to someone or need help, there are people who care. Sending support and hearts. ❤️❤️❤️

[@majoraswrath6182]

I love how in the books, it is heavily implied that the "question" for the answer of the meaning of life is "what is 6 times 7"

[@rafiki_9562]

How many roads must the man walk down

[@simonnikonov2577]

Wasn't it 6 by 9 in the books?

[@goodolnonamee]

@@simonnikonov2577 That's also whay I remember, I thought that the question was one that didn't equal 42. Then one of the characters says something along the lines of "Well I always felt there was something intrinsically wrong with the universe" or something as a reaction. Probably Ford, although I read it so long ago that maybe I'm building false memories or something, it was like 5 years ago.

[@majoraswrath6182]

@@simonnikonov2577 yeah. But with the crashed ship, it would mean that the math of the computer was slightly off due to the people who arrived messing with the computer.

[@simonnikonov2577]

@@majoraswrath6182 true. But with whole "flight is just missing fall on earth" and "somebody else's problem field" in later books, I somehow found 6*9=42 more believable compared to 6*7=42

[@fakestory1753]

the computer already know this is not a well defined question, but it decide not tell us until 7.5 millions years later what a troll

[@stephenbachman132]

Nuke the computer. Yeah i agree lets atomise it for trolling.

[@Juhoty.x9]

😂 lol he actually was a troll inside the computer I gave him the true answer

[@gabrieleporru4443]

Yeah, I thought the same, right? ADORABLE, ISN'T IT? *FUCKING PIECE OF ELECTRONIC CRAP, YOU-*

[@nagash303]

early 1980s 8-bit computer. no wonder it takes 7.5 billion years to calculate it.

[@breathtakingsamurai981]

Best troll in the universe 😀

[@jason497]

can that computer run crysis?

[@IlValentino100]

barely

[@malandro2023]

Yeah... you need two of those at least, to run 480p at twentish FPSs...

[@2009heyhow]

@@javier.alvarez764 no shit, but you understand that crisis is a meme right?

[@jovee6155]

@@2009heyhow normies don't meme mate

[@javier.alvarez764]

Universum I think you underestimate what most people take seriously.

[@Utopian1234]

There's this quote from No Mans's Sky I will always remember. "Existence is beautiful, if you let it be. Life is not a question, there does not need to be an answer."

[@Totally_Bonkers]

sure there's no answer or question to life, but in terms of life + the universe + everything, the answer is 42.

[@thusundi1963]

There IS an answer though. The purpose of life is to know, love and serve God. It’s also the only way we’ll find real happiness. Only God is eternal.

[@adrianwelgemoed9562]

@@thusundi1963whatever makes YOU happy. Everyone finds their own way to true happiness. Theres no set path. Its not always god

[@thusundi1963]

@@adrianwelgemoed9562 It’s the only way to be happy *forever.* If I wanted to be happy for an evening, a bottle of wine would do the trick. But in the morning, my heart would still feel empty.

[@rekindledashes_08.18_]

I’m starting to think maybe Adams constructed the plot of this part on the basis of this quote…

[@adambomb528]

At the very moment she says “42,” guess how many minutes into the movie that is. Yep, I officially have no life.

[@philipphuf8489]

Adam Hall I would like this comment but it currently has 42 likes

[@alpereninan9500]

42 likes, holy shit... People, do not ever like this comment.

[@Nick-lx3my]

43rd like

[@alpereninan9500]

well played...

[@aaronhapgood6383]

Wait for real that cool

[@agentarachnid2009]

To a computer, 42 corresponds to * in ASCII. * is essentially a pointer so 42 means life means whatever you define it as

[@TKinfinity01]

Agent Arachnid That’s some deep shit right there.

[@Red_Beard2798]

Isn't that literally written somewhere in the book?

[@Snowy123]

YeahNahHowYaGoin I read the book and I don’t remember that

[@NIHIL_EGO]

So, basically, the meaning of life is whatever you want. *My dick is the meaning of life.*

[@PlexusDuMenton]

The writer allready replied that the answer "42" was just a random number, he wanted it to be the most random and usual number possible People searching for a meaning behind is a part of the joke though

[@sergs5482]

1) PRESS & HOLD ALT 2) ENTER 42 ( on numeric keyboard ) 3) You will get ASCII "*" -> meaning "Everything"

[@sirreal2741]

Assassins Creed II

[@ellajay8357]

Someone HAD to like this and now the likes are at 43

[@fuseteam]

That's an alt code ascii 42 is _searches table_

[@andmicbro1]

* is more like a wildcard. Yes, it does kind of stand for "everything", but more in the sense of telling a computer to look for a match with something else. Such as "look for all files named 'file.*'", so the computer will look for all files named file, with any extension on the end. Similarly you could say "look for all files named '*.txt'", in which case the computer will search for an files ending in .txt.

[@MrDaldagnuur]

108 105 099 107 032 109 121 032 098 097 108 108 122 032 110 105 103 103 097

[@jonathanwilliams1974]

The sad thing is that the movie does not give you the satisfying payoff like the book does. I think hearing "42" was one the most satisfying moments in any book I've ever read/listened too.

[@Julius_Hardware]

No pause. The comic timing is completely off in the whole scene. The movie had its moments (the improbability drive effects) but more misses than hits.

[@ryuk5673]

@@Julius_Hardware idk i thought it was fine and didnt beat a dead horse. maintains the overal light hearted feel of the movie.

[@the-we9wu]

The funny thing is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was actually written 42 years ago.

[@titusjames4912]

It's a beautiful book.

[@fakegandhi5577]

Can you hold off on the mind-blowing, please?

[@dancingenginier5707]

thats why i was recomended this 13 years later

[@jazzling]

no

[@snakeman5250]

Explains why this was recommended know

[@chessology7598]

I’ve just realized. She technically didn’t ask a question. She said: “The answer to life, the universe, and everything!” Which is not a question. She should’ve asked “What is the meaning of life?” Which would be a much more understandable question for a computer.

[@sameoldsatellite]

Problem with that question is that Deep Thought could just give what life is: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death / the existence of an individual human being or animal. I suppose if you added a prefix like "philosophically," or "existentially, what is the meaning of life?"

[@chessology7598]

@@sameoldsatellite true.

[@Aubatron]

Yeah the literal meaning of life is for an organism to pass on it's genes to the next generation and to further evolution through series and parallels of random mutations. Philosophical meaning of life is subject to whatever you want it to be (is there a god?).

[@spacekraken666]

Pootis, or [~noun] phu-tos. It is the meaning of life.

[@devinward461]

@@spacekraken666 sandvich

[@Deaganerate]

Man whenever someone asks “what’s the meaning of life” and I respond “42” and they don’t get it kinda makes me sad.

[@jamesbell1186]

Lol how many people are asking you the meaning of life

[@silversamurai0267]

I did this to my sister once. She was talking about something else, but happened to mention "the meaning of life" to which I immediately responded, "42". She looked at me and said, "What?" And I said, "42. That's the meaning of life." She was so confused by me and tried to get me to explain. But instead of explaining, I called my dad, put him on speaker phone, and said, "Dad. What's the meaning of life?" To which he, obviously, replied, "42." The look on her face. 🤣 (We then explained the reference, and she hates us both now.)

[@FailedMaster]

To be fair, "42" is the answer to life, the universe and everything. Not to the question "What's the meaning of life".

[@marcuspriest9570]

Nice my the "Color twelve."

[@greatcoldemptiness]

Ok

[@adam__smith]

I remember listening to a radio play of this with my father and brother when it first came out; it was hillarious. Deep Thought had a deep authoritative voice which matched the answer perfectly.

[@UhgeneIgnorian]

Fun fact: The number 42 has great value, without it there would be lack of order when it comes to calculating everything we know using numeric values, therefore the number 42 was place between 41 and 43.

[@gonnacry442]

Ginormous brain time

[@nahanng7791]

Lmao.

[@Aubatron]

genius

[@mastermelee2543]

except math is flawed, because we are flawed. No human can create something perfect on every level.

[@emok2284]

@@mastermelee2543 your mom is perfect

[@Hmmm0101]

Fun fact: 42 is the only remaining (eligible) number below 100 which has not been represented as the sum of three cubes, yet.

[@hytraox]

So .. where is the Fun huh ?

[@zentriea3825]

I think it’s a pretty fun fact.

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

2 and 4 are also the Chinese numbers for life and death

[@CarrotAndCo]

That's the question

[@Americansikkunt]

I'm 12

[@supremewest7319]

4-2. That's the level in Mario where you take the warp zone to level 8-1.

[@cowlemgambino7721]

True

[@Kjajo]

So thats the true meaning of everything

[@eduardodias2073]

@@Kjajo mario speedrun

[@Totally_Bonkers]

which means.. the meaning of life, the universe and everything was to invent the original mario bros so we could speedrun it. everything else is just byproducts.

[@alazkaalazka6087]

This scene is super deep because it shows that if we were able to get the answer to the meaning of life but it wasn’t a answer we were hoping for we probably wouldn’t accept it because of our egos as humans. Also it shows that the meaning of life could very well be something human beings could possibly never comprehend even if we did achieve the answer. Basically the explanatory gap

[@hhds113]

*guy in the background* FORTY-TWO???!

[@dwaugh2215]

yes that's right!

[@giselloll]

Yep!

[@SamuSeen]

With British accent

[@dukethotness]

😂

[@jorcygale1538]

the robot to add 0 at the end of it

[@jfewme]

The old alexa

[@p.atrick.]

Sorry bro I can't like your comment cuz it has 69 likes

[@rey4874]

@@p.atrick. wow

[@p.atrick.]

Well not anymore so I can like it now

[@beactivebehappy9894]

@@p.atrick. *but why?*

[@p.atrick.]

@@beactivebehappy9894 69 innit

[@faisalabdulfattah]

Last year I was living in Stavanger, Norway. I worked in Schlumberger, an oil & gas service provider. On my second week on the job, this charming Scottish guy was showing me and my colleague some of the tools we send out to the field, and teaching us a few things about them. He was teaching us about how before each tool is sent out, it's length is readjusted based on the client's requirement. And once we change the total length, the placement of our sensors in the tool need to be readjusted. We know where to place the sensors through a simple formula unique to each tool. Something like "the distance from tool bottom to sensor A must always be x inches", and then the rest of the sensors are at a fixed distance from sensor A. He then walked towards a tool, and somewhat rhetorically asked my colleague and I in a thick Scottish accent "So, you two know what the magic number for this one is, then?" I lamely said "I don't know. 42?" And then in a moment I'll never forget, he looked at me with genuine shock and disbelief on his face and said: "How the fuck did you know that?"

[@feonor26]

+pleasedontstalkme So how'd you like Stavanger?:)

[@alexlevett4454]

do you know what the movie is called

[@TheEnde124]

Cool story, my uncle also worked at Schlumberger in Stavanger, but moved to the US with his family to make lots of money in Schlumberger.

[@asszudemi2647]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@mohamedelhefyan2146]

+TheEnde124 noo way my dad works at schlumberger xd.

[@linksoni213]

"Only when you know the question will you know what the answear means" Such a fantastic quote

[@luizguilhermedefreitasbord5802]

Yes it is!

[@unclestarwarssatchmo9848]

This gag is honestly the smartest showcase of the true purpouse of the scientific method

[@2snnif270]

why? i don’t get it…

[@fastacker2]

`You spelled porpoise wrong methinks. :) The porpoise of the scientific method already left.

[@c3goextreme4sure]

I dont think you know anything about the scientific method, lol. Did you even went to university?

[@unclestarwarssatchmo9848]

@@c3goextreme4sure yes, three times actually

[@c3goextreme4sure]

@@unclestarwarssatchmo9848 aint buying that!! Lol 😂😂😂😂 not on my watch kiddo

[@silverpslm]

She did answer the question immedietly after they asked it. "I'll have to think about that". The ability to think, to explore, to live. The fact that they lived and thrived for 7.5 billions years already says something to the viewer doesn't it?

[@DonSMDT]

*million

[@joebutlersnr7017]

@@DonSMDT you saved me the job.

[@TheBibleIsaWeirdThing]

Saved me the time of correcting this looser thanks. Pfffft can't you hear they said million not billion lol lame. Can't comprehend basic language. Must be deaf 😂. Stupid head you. I bet you don't even know how to hear, never learned it in class like I did.

[@silverpslm]

@@DonSMDT ha been two years and just noticed. Oh well no big deal.

[@morbius7437]

@@silverpslm don't worry its a canon event

[@TheKaiser-pf8fr]

When windows has to do another update after you have already waited an hour

[@heathyb42]

1:46?

[@matthewhuffman9194]

Or 7 and a half million years... ha

[@youngglenfarg]

Just used this today in a computer science lesson on limits of computation and tractable problems. Great clip!

[@dead2675]

Answer is 42 and if we go to 0:42 it says return to this place in exactly 7.5 million years which will continue the loop forever which means life will continue infinitely in loop of reproduction. But also 7.5 is very important number, The population of Earth is currently 7.5 billion. And also when Beetlejuice is asked what comes in between 2 and 4 he says 36 but when we add all the numbers it is 42 which was the answer to life which Beetlejuice is an ancient god computer. The answer we've all been waiting is that the recommendation of KZbin is controlled by that ancient god computer (Beetlejuice) who knows exactly when to recommend the video

[@nugget5103]

This needs to have more likes

[@Halbed_Lemons]

Eight Trailer get this to 42 likes

[@leonardowatch8871]

I am the 42 likes. I am the ultimate answer

[@dead2675]

@@leonardowatch8871 lmao

[@JuzTroll]

Please unlike the video so its 42 likes

[@segerminator]

They waited 7,5 million years for something that I can get in every KZbin commentary section about this topic.

[@AzurePages]

I’m your 42nd like

[@taoakoalienka4762]

I really wanna like this comment but its in 42 likes so....

[@085665372]

Still at 42 likes lol

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

𝖮𝗋 𝗃𝗎𝗌𝗍 𝖺𝗌𝗄 𝖺𝗇𝗒𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗅𝗆𝖺𝗈

[@icraveaffection]

​@@user-mg7wh8zq6v whats with the font lmao

[@cuccibro]

1:47 *SIKE* *THATS THE WRONG NUMBER!*

[@RealNiggaShit]

+cuccibro hahahahahaha nice one

[@blainequillin7452]

+cuccibro Lol, I woke up with my ex girl, heres her number

[@nnssoonn]

+cuccibro OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Dlannmir]

+cuccibro Now u have 42 likes e.e

[@RealNiggaShit]

Kizu ikr

[@MemeLord-x7y]

Imagine if the answer was 69 and everyone would just say “nice” in chorus

[@Astrokauza]

Funniest moment of all universe 😂

[@jakariashafin1695]

Why I don't get it​@@Astrokauza

[@TheFalseShepphard]

​@@jakariashafin1695 it's A reddit thing

[@alejotassile6441]

​@jakariashafin1695 a sex pose, it's nice

[@MoguMogu818]

I burst out laughing when this scene came. I sometimes wish that the rest of the books got their own movie, not just the first.

[@thebroluke4448]

What movie is this

[@hagg1383]

@@thebroluke4448 bro no one says they’re all making the same joke about the number 42. Im baffled but the films called “the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy”. Take care bro👍🏻

[@DarthKanye]

5th book was ass though

[@ryuk5673]

@@hagg1383 are u good bro? lol

[@hagg1383]

@@ryuk5673 😭yeah i don’t know why I was so stressed

[@odinokami9610]

The moment Deep Thought answered with "42", it was literally 42 minutes into the film...

[@Quazzter]

cuz u like boyz

[@coffeeagent1]

The 4nswer i2 everywhere

[@phoenix82134]

Your comment now has 42 likes

[@MilesB1975]

My work is done...Let there be Light.

[@blueteller]

All this time... And all this time I was convinced the Answer was 43... *MY LIFE IS RUINED!!! D':*

[@operation1968]

NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[@richardjared960]

Yeah I thought it was 41

[@IloveJellow]

No no you have too look at it upside down see...

[@PuppetierMaster]

You all think its sunshine and rainbows for being off by one number. I.. I was determined that life, the very question of existence hindered on the number 24.

[@TehF0cus]

Why would the answer be a Plus symbol ( + )? 42 is the Asterisk in ASCII, making it literally "Whatever you want it to be". The symbol is *

[@BigJMC]

I just love the answer of 42 because it shows how ridiculous the question is to begin with.

[@alexlun4464]

It's funny how the Author arbitrarily picked 42 as the answer for life, the universe and everything... and yet people are adding meaning to the number 42 in so many different ways in the same fashion as people want to add meaning to life and the universe.

[@hackmedia7755]

the answer is to live a fun life. If people are dumb enough to accept a number, then they should get in line to a normie wage slave life like they deserve.

[@potatoboy6094]

Humans are hilarious aren’t they? our need to innovate and add on to things regardless of whether it’s practical is so powerful that we turn picture books into philosophical debates about the nature of life, just because we aren’t satisfied with the outcome

[@furiousfinch1587]

It's fitting, honestly. There is no meaning. The meaning is to ADD meaning.

[@gospelofrye6881]

He didn't pick it arbitrarily, Adams did it as a reference to Lewis Caroll. He said in interviews he picked it a random, but HHGTTG has too many Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass and Hunting of the Snark references to be co-incidental. 1. "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" - Douglas Adams. (vs) "Why I've done as many as six impossible things before breakfast!" - The Red Queen, Alice Through the Looking Glass. 2. Carrol has many "42s" in his books - Alice does math that equals 42, the combined ages of the red and white queens (they are part of the same chess set) is 42-squared, in Hunting of the Snark the Baker has 42 boxes he leaves on the beach etc. 3. The Hunting of the Snark is "an agony in eight fits" and each section is called a "fit" as in "Fit the First, Fit the Second, etc" The episode names of the original Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show episodes are "Fit the First, Fit the Second, etc". 4. The satire in Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass is a criticism of mathematics and most of the jokes are math-based. Many of the jokes in HHGTTG are math-based: Infinite Improbability Drive, the improbability factor at which Ford and Arthur are rescued is the same as a phone number of the party where Arthur met Trillian, the population of the universe is zero because the universe is infinite but not every world is inhabited so there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds and any finite number divided by infinity is as near to zero as makes no odds, Bistromathics, the "ultimate questions" in Arthur's brain being 6x9 and so on... Reasons 2 and 4 could have been unconscious on Douglas Adams' part, and even reason 1 might have been him accidentally quoting Carroll from childhood memory of reading Looking Glass. But reason 3 is the keystone IMHO that shows a deliberate use of Lewis Carroll, and that makes it much less likely that the three others are co-incidental. . One similarity is a co-incidence, two similarities is probably unconscious author bias (Adams is English like Carrol and studied him at uni), three to four is deliberate. Douglas Adams said he chose 42 at random... but his own text is a powerful argument otherwise.

[@potatoboy6094]

@@gospelofrye6881 nothing is random, we live in a reactionary universe, everything happens for some reason, I’m sure he had unconscious reasons for picking that number, I have unconscious reasons for writing this comment, you have unconscious reasons for writing yours, but the conscious reason he picked it was because it didn’t make sense, it seems like a random number (unless you do a bunch of outside research), and it isn’t a satisfying conclusion to the one question practically every thinking creature spends their lives searching an answer for, and THAT was the point, by finding meaning in something that’s supposed to be random and arbitrary you’ve accidentally and unconsciously discovered the REAL meaning of life, the universe and everything. it’s whatever the fuck you want it to be!

[@janfungusamon4926]

As soon as the robot said 'Fort-' I got a notification. I guess I'll never know the answer to life, the universe, and everything, until I rewind 10 seconds but that's not the point.

[@ender_pro2583]

The computer said fortnite lol

[@ChocManus]

8. . . . .48. . .

[@CarrotAndCo]

Fortnite

[@lenoraslavens171]

42

[@RektGame]

nooo way??? i got that too and i never get notiflications??????

[@crowsick5836]

The hypothetical efficiency of converting mass to energy, as per E=mc², by having a given mass orbit a rotating black hole is 42%, the highest efficiency yet known to modern physic

[@vaishnavjiju4088]

Yeah I also watch minutephysics

[@Roland_Duson]

What happens to the 58%

[@dark_rit]

The 58% is wasted, lost, and not harnessed. Since matter cannot be created or destroyed. When electricity is sent along a powerline some of the electricity ends up leaving the powerline and is lost.

[@havleyforbes4747]

Antimatter-matter explosions release energy with near 100 percent efficiency. We have tested it at the large hadron collider. Might or might not be possible to make a power generator with the stuff, but it is much more efficient than 42 percent.

[@Meeoorr]

yes

[@Сергей_Максименко]

42! Кемерово! 42 братухи!

[@fartypebbles]

you'd think in 7.5 million years they would be able to figure it out themselves. edit: thanks for the likes

[@shamanrauger9040]

Yea but they probably also relied on the computer to give that answer. so in other words, it’s the ultimate “not my problem anymore” write off as to why they didn’t put any effort into it. Should of had a back up for if it didn’t work…..

[@stevenbartel5008]

or invent a computer that only takes some years to calculate it

[@firebreathingguy561]

They too reliant on computers for that, they need to find the answers themselves

[@gavinsmith9871]

They gave their minds to machines thinking it would set them free, but it only allowed other men with machines to enslave them.

[@nanomage]

We are too reliant on computers now, nevermind in a fictional sense. No joke I've seen people pull out their smartphone, open the calculator to find out the answer to 20-11...

[@DavidLeeLewisM]

What's funny is that the author of the books said that 42 meant nothing, yet people are still going for it...

[@TheVengeur69]

'cause it's funny :P

[@Superdarkcloud666]

Because people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals. A person is smart. I'm just a person, and I figured out that the answer to life ISN'T 42 because I actually payed attention when the people in the movie themselves admitted it's not the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

[@sirilluminarthevaliant2895]

DavidLeeLewisM don’t you get it. The answer to the meaning of life is itself meaningless But the question is where it gets interesting. It’s not the treasure it’s the quest. It’s figuring out what you are looking for

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

I actually like that humans are so ambitious to make sense of everything, whether or not it's wrong or right.

[@egemengi3917]

TheVengeur69 the beginning of your sentence is a quote from Men in Black

[@wolfinlee2479]

Lmao! "42?" The guy in the crowd. Gets me everytime. Haha.

[@leongalehart4254]

The fact that 42 got referenced in Final Fantasy 14 made this scene gold. haha! love it!

[@pockylovingranger]

It’s also referenced in Honkai Starrail xD

[@Rhias.Altera]

It shall be called.... "Deep throat."

[@darinae34]

Of all the names.... Of all the characters But it made me laugh more than it should.

[@rudysantayana4252]

“MOUTH WIDE OPEN MOUTH WIDE OPEN”

[@adrianarias986]

I'm the 69th likr

[@TallicaMan1986]

The worst part about this is 42 could've very well been the answer. It's just Life was not experienced and mature enough to even begin to reverse engineer the answer to make it useful. It's basically akin to us teaching monkeys stuff. They'll be able to get it, but to fundamentally grasp the concept and utilize it to help them progress is well beyond their cognition.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

From the 70's to the 90's a few people reckoned they'd taught apes sign language, and were "communicating" with them. Actually the apes just latched on to actions that made their handlers happy and got them a reward. Also a lot of the "translations" of what they'd "said" were somewhat optimistic. There's a long video about it called Koko Can't Talk.

[@swordofstabbingold]

What do you get when you multiply six times nine?

[@spookydoughy]

@@swordofstabbingold 42

[@themilkman6969]

@@swordofstabbingold i dont think thats the Question, as 42/9≠6

[@5_sets_of_triangle_pasta]

@@themilkman6969 that's part of the joke in the book, the earth was the computer and it didn't finish it's job, so it's wrong.

[@moonanddarkness]

And it shall be called.. Earth.

[@zacharywilson9596]

Nyx & Hemera, yes it is Earth. However, in one of the later books (I can’t remember which one) it’s revealed that another race crash lands onto Earth and ruins the experiment, and we’re descended from them.

[@pockylovingranger]

No its called, "BZZZZZZTTTTT" x3

[@CMDRSweeper]

@@zacharywilson9596 Indeed! The real crash of the computer program. And the aliens that crashed were actually "dumped" there by that alien civillization too which was great stuff!

[@voidlegend2437]

The guy in the background “42?” Gets me every time 😂

[@alchemy616]

For two of the brightest and best of a hyper intelligent race, it really was dumb to ask a super computer for an answer that doesn't even have a real question. Imagine, years of constant bickering and war for finding an answer and in the end realizing they don't even know what the hell the question was. Its like fighting over a dollar in the Sahara desert. What are gonna use for when you're in the middle of nowhere? Completely pointless, just like life itself.

[@cypherusuh]

you could eat that dollar. pretty good source of fiber

[@sebajun8601]

So your saying life is meaningless and we will never know the real purpose of life here on earth.

[@cypherusuh]

@@sebajun8601 objectively, the meaning of life is to breed and try to kept our species survives as long as possible. Subjectively, it depends on each person. Getting lots of money, helping people, eat as many things as possible, etc. Just think of it like The Sims kinda logic.

[@firebreathingguy561]

@@sebajun8601 eh, to me we should find and make our own purposes in this world. Life is temporary , that is indeed true but there's no point mulling over it and saying "We all gonna die someday anyway. " And they wonder why they feel like life is meaningless and repeating when they the one that get themselves into that situation by not trying. I know there's something that doesn't allow this kinda of people to try, it makes them unmotivated. I just wanna say ..make your own purposes, learn new skill, idk make your own adventure.

[@Plorbus]

It’s their fault because I mean.. they did ask for a simple answer lmao 😂

[@nicksojka7457]

And they asked for an answer to the question without saying what the question was

[@jackkraken3888]

Exactly they asked for a simple answer.

[@hunterkudo9832]

I actually have found out the meaning of life, and what is our purpose, it made me both laugh and shake my head because its been there all along.

[@ptux_]

@@hunterkudo9832 Well, what is it then?

[@hunterkudo9832]

@@ptux_ a mystery to some

[@nopl0x427]

Spoilers: the other super computer is called "Earth"

[@pockylovingranger]

No, it's called, "Blllllllllllllllllllllllllllp" xD

[@Josiah.T]

And it was destroyed five minutes Before The Question was found

[@oxigen5438]

@@Josiah.T By Vogons to construct a hyperspace road

[@o1-preview]

shit, I'm doing my part, is it possible the answer to everything is that not only are we programmed but possibily our programmers as well? I have no clue, need to invent and create more stuff, for that, i'll need any help possible to keep being alive.

[@SimonClarkstone]

@@oxigen5438 In some versions of the story, this is just a pretext and they were comissioned to do so by a consortium of psychoanalysts who didn't want to be out of a job.

[@wanderingghost7324]

I've been looking for this since long ago when I saw this. I never get to watch the movie until I found it at KZbin again this year.

[@steven_t_k1068]

I think the computer is called earth

[@matthewtan961]

well it is

[@kaecilius2656]

and the ultimate question has to do with that answer

[@maaku03]

Steven_T_K yeah and my CALCULATOR IS CALLED UNIVERSE HUH!

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

That or the lab and humans were the lab rats, not the rats.

[@DartLuke]

At it was destroyed because of space highway

[@canaanclb]

The answer to the meaning of life is All Your Base Are Belong To Us.

[@nekokiki4002]

Canaan B nope, the answer is: DE WAE

[@hotelmario510]

2001 called, they want their meme back.

[@jwrobin21]

ALL YOUR BASE WE HAVE UNDER OUR COMMAND (?)

[@hevy6]

Maybe there was an error that caused the answer to be wrong by a order of ten. Maybe the answer actually was 420?

[@apa6502]

hevy6 BLAZEIT!

[@gettothechoppergaming9342]

Noscoper!!!!!

[@TrixieTheGreat]

hevy6 No it was 42. Because 1337 has 42nd number in Pi. Illuminati confirmed!!11!

[@apa6502]

doctorjurgen Pie confirmed.

[@the1andonlytitch]

hevy6 That's it you have answered the question of everything, thank you sir

[@Annuii.i]

I saw this movie when I was like 5 or 6 with my dad and this is the only scene I remember. I didn't know the title back then so I'm literally always looking up "movie about to girls asking the biggest question to life and mice" cause that's all of remember lol. It's a miracle I find my answer everytime

[@lesterviquiera525]

What was the title

[@ronalddavidrojas5795]

​@@lesterviquiera525 ... Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[@locrin77]

It seems a legit answer to me. Once I had a dream in which I walked into a graveyard, and found my own grave - with my name on the tombstone and all that. It was also written that I lived for 42 years. In July 2021, I'll turn 38.

[@connorjm1782]

4 more years

[@locrin77]

@@connorjm1782 Yeap - I will have a valid excuse for not having to play The Elder Scrolls VI :P

[@user.who137]

Let us know what happens abd if ya win the gulag.

[@Username-pk7pt]

Reply to this post in 2026

[@TheBigO]

I’ll just leave a comment so I’ll be notified when u answer in 4yrs

[@danieljmoore]

In early computing ASCII code the number 42 is equivalent to an asterisk, which was used as a placeholder variable to represent virtually any other number value or character. So the answer to life, the universe, and everything being 42 means you can subjectively put in your own value for what you think the answers are. The answer is up to you, the experiencer. Simple, really.

[@yasininn76]

Wasn't the book written before the invention of computers?

[@doriannamjesnik3007]

@@yasininn76 ASCII was invented in 1961. The book was written in 1978.

[@AzerothLatinoamerica]

in all that time they could build a better pc

[@Nosok638]

42🗣🔥

[@anniel8407]

42 means death. The answer to life, is death.

[@3679god]

+Annie L It allsow takes 42Minutes travel to every other place on the planet

[@peteralbrecht3999]

+Annie L Actually In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately-shi ni (four two)-sound like the word "death"

[@valteraa]

+Peter Knauss 42 also means 42 cause you know it's number not a word just a penny for your thought

[@alexpetersen4307]

bitch why are you lying ;)??? .. In east Asia, including parts of China, tall buildings often avoid having a 42nd floor because of tetraphobia - fear of the number four because the words "four" and "death" sound the same (si or sei). Likewise, four 14, 24, etc. si or sei means 4 and death, i understand why they do as they do .. but it doesnt mean death you boosted bonobo :) ..

[@thaplayboy]

The answer of Life is Math M - 13 A - 1 T - 20 H - 8 All that equals 42

[@bil186]

I never realised that the computer was voiced by Helen Mirren..

[@neiltube1548]

Bro the book is such a legendarily iconic wild ride. You could faint by the first two paras or like me go throughout completely enjoying the series

[@jonesreviews4613]

The first time i saw this movie i was on acid and it was the absolute best thing I've ever experienced on tv

[@bianpaais]

But can that computer run fallout 76 without glitching?

[@Probablyabox]

better yet does that computer even want to?

[@godzillavkk]

@@gatts6217 The fans are bigger glitches.

[@banned-account]

@@godzillavkk The fans are the ones that fix Bethesda's games because they can't do their jobs

[@JM-dy4ty]

It doesn’t matter if you run it on a supercomputer the game is flawed and poorly optimized

[@musicalginger4263]

It'll have to think about it..

[@anysn2268]

One day my math teacher put on a reallg hard equation that he thought nobody would get the answer right, and as I was babbling with my friends he picked me to answer and after reading I just said "Is it 42?". The answer was indeed 42...

[@bizmasterTheSlav]

Gigabrain moment

[@watcherglowcloud]

I was testing my science teacher for nerdiness yesterday, and she asked for my definition of science. I told her it was the study of life, the universe, and everything. She nodded and started to move on, but one lone kid in the back shouted out, "42!" My life is now complete. (Science teacher didn't get the reference tho)

[@emekmek3197]

more this kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4OxZGudoL2qabc

[@tonytiger93]

I thought science meant “The systematic study of nature”

[@whitealliance9540]

42. Makes perfect sense. It is... Awe inspiring.

[@O-cDxA]

After a lifetime of contemplation, I have reached the conclusion that the actual answer is .

[@o1-preview]

that not only are we programmed but possibly our programmers as well?

[@Fact_core]

43

[@solinvictus5173]

@@o1-preview That we are programmable-unprogrammed machines, therefore free but useless?

[@andreww9726]

420*

[@joemartin7451]

so underrated comment

[@andreww9726]

Joe Martin thanks lol

[@OneBoundMusic]

hey you two should kiss

[@joemartin7451]

***** lol

[@notahamster333]

ayye lmao

[@joooonlol]

Teacher: writes something difficult math thing on board and calls me out Me: 1:46

[@whattheheckamidoinghere4305]

Teacher: Wrong!

[@BaloonBoy7]

@@whattheheckamidoinghere4305 Teacher: 1:51

[@Matchyan]

Me: 0:41

[@Alexander-wk8of]

Lmao, all the replies to this comment are so fun y xD

[@twentyeight602]

Me: 0:42

[@mfkai6080]

I've never seen the movie. But I do absolutely love how the super computer is designed. Not how I imagined it at all. But honestly way better.

[@jesustovar2549]

Read the book, is way better.

[@c.j.stanbridge4560]

So the true name of the Earth is BZZZZZZTTTTT?

[@zerozone5848]

Spongebob: Yknow whats funnier than 42? Patrick: **chuckles** what? Spongebob: *_4 3_* Patrick: 😂 Spongebob: 😂

[@ΒίκτωρΚιρόσκα]

I was looking for this comment.

[@googleprofiel6814]

Wasn't it 24 and 25?

[@darkknightdummo6660]

Ben Vangenechten ...

[@lockkeythetrickstar5359]

I never understood this joke. Can somebody explain?

[@stellar3x]

Alecks Skcela I’ll explain. Patrick and Spongebob are actual idiots. There. Your problem is solved.

[@NovaStorm93]

It took 10 years to get recommended this. It took them 7.5 million years.

[@skitterd7345]

I only just recieved the recommendation today and this is my favorite movie.

[@TheDaMeM]

42 братуха Кемерово Слава Богу 42🙏❤️СЛАВА 42🙏❤️АНГЕЛА ХРАНИТЕЛЯ 42 КАЖДОМУ ИЗ ВАС🙏❤️БОЖЕ ХРАНИ 42🙏❤️СПАСИБО ВАМ НАШИ БРАТУХИ🙏🏼❤️ХРАНИ БОсса💯Слава Богу 42🙏❤️СЛАВА 42🙏❤️АНГЕЛА ХРАНИТЕЛЯ 42 42 БРАТУХАНИЩЕ🔥🔥🔥😎😎😎😎🥰КЕМЕРОВСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ С НАМИ ЭЭЭУУУУУУ😜🤙🤙🤙🤙🧏‍♂️🤫🐟🐟🥱🔥🔥🔥🔥ПУСТЬ ЖИЗНЬ ЧИСТО КАЙФАРИНКА БУДЕТ🔥🔥🔥🤨😂😡🥰

[@pokewarrior4711]

Ultimate question: how many years will it take cartoon network to become a good network again.

[@SonnyFRST]

42... eternity cicles.

[@SonnyFRST]

Update: Aparently i was wrong, Cartoon Network is gonna start airing Digimon and something else i forgot, so now i actually have a reason to watch it (but of course i'm not because i can always see it online in japanese without any censoring)

[@nihal2055]

Bro, travel back in time. It helps

[@javierowo]

Espeon of the sun 42

[@LuminousLumu]

Espeon of the sun 42 likes 👏

[@raden527]

I think the computer was too dumb to forget the 0 after 42 Edit: wow I’m surprised I got all those likes for a shitty joke like this one.

[@LithuanianGoober]

Zorg_LoReX hi shnat

[@raduneacsu880]

SOOOOO FUNNY DUUUUUDE

[@raduneacsu880]

THAT IS LIKE,LEGIT FUNNY, SHAKING AND CRYING RN🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rhyno39]

Weeeeeeed

[@jaredl9478]

WHY ARE WE ALL ON CAPS?!!!

[@U3X6785]

42 is when your body starts to go downhill.....

[@angelomordini6779]

BrianS317 this has 42 likes

[@praveensharma9893]

BrianS317 oh for fuck's sake man

[@praveensharma9893]

And yes there's 42 likes...

[@ninja.saywhat]

it's actually around the late 20's for some women and most of the others are around the early 30's.

[@joel7342]

Isn't the age of 25 your peak and then the body just goes downhill?

[@MothFable]

the humor in the books is very british and furthermore hilarious, making the books among my favorite series of all time. im also glad this movie was so good.

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

A lot of people, myself included, were very disappointed by the movie. The BBC did a weekly serial of it in, I believe, the late 70z or early 80s which was low budget but much much better.

[@kewlfroeinweizer4328]

The answer to the "everything" in the universe is MATH Number the alphabets from a-z abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz M=13 A=1 T=20 H=8 Now add them together 13+1+20+8=42

[@Howyaduing]

🤯

[@supreetkumar7604]

My favorite subject

[@hornby396]

What if you're Japanese?

[@bwiebke]

Bruh.

[@brayanx2]

Ñ

[@CaptainNemo1701]

Fun fact: Douglas Adams played on stage with Pink Floyd (they inspired 'Disaster Area') on one of the Earls Court Pulse gigs in 1994. It was his 42nd birthday....HHG is a work of genius. Original radio series the best, BBC TV show pretty good, books great, movie....oh dear...It gets a lot wrong & screws up the ending. The restaurant at the end of the universe is not a space/distance 'end' as in the movie (they scuttle off screen left) its the end of time!. Other gags were missing - the famous 'beware of the leopard' line at the start got cut, the whole section with Trillian kidnapped was pure padding & the John Malkovich bit was never in the original story although his planet actually did get a mention at the start of a radio episode with a joke about beings who believe the universe was sneezed into existence. Also cut was the sequence with the camp galactic police who come to arrest Zaphod for stealing the Heart of Gold...I missed that line about 'I write novels'...'He writes them in Crayon' his partner quips!. In the radio series, Matt Zimmerman played one of the cops, more famous for being the voice of Alan Tracy in Thunderbirds. Adams was notorious for fiddling with the plot & for me, his changes for the movie made it fall flat in some areas. There has been much speculation about the origin of '42'. According to an interview in a CD box set of the radio series with Adams himself, it was taken from a corporate training video made by John Cleese with the late Tim Brook-Taylor of The Goodies fame. Cleese made videos instructing bank staff how to relate to customers and Taylor played a rude bank clerk who ignored a customer when counting money....which came to £42. Much has been made of '42' having some mystical relevance but in reality, its just a number used as a surreal gag. There is no deeper significance beyond mere co-incidence. Of course, many people now connect '42' in different ways, but it boils down to just a number chosen at random almost for a joke line. I've been listening to HHG since its radio debut and would encourage folk who've come to this wonderful work to listen to the original radio dramas - pure gold. The jokes even continue into the end credits. And the theme? - it's really Journey of the Sorcerer by The Eagles from the album One of These Nights. The HHG is based on a real book, The Hitch Hikers Guide to Europe by Ken Welsh, now long out of print. The entry for (then) communist Albania simply read 'Forget it'.

[@astromycologist2755]

Praise Douglas Adams and everyone that worked on this.

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

Damn, this is actually pretty deep lol. So essentially the ultimate computer that can calculate the ultimate question is humanity? I think that's what they were implying. Reminds me of a quote that I really like, "Life is the universe experiencing itself, in endless variety". So true.

[@atch4764]

Spoilers I haven’t seen the movie in a hot minute (and haven’t read the book) but I’m pretty sure that the super advanced computer was actually earth itself, and the dudes who I can’t remember the name of blew up earth as it was about to answer the question.

[@oliverbertrand]

It’s a comedy novel, the earth is the calculator which is destroyed right before it spits out the ultimate question. It’s a joke. The joke runs even longer in the next book (Spoilers) They go back in time in the sequel and the ultimate question is “what is six times nine” which doesn’t make sense since 6x9=54. The question and answer are nonsensical, and that’s the punchline. So no it’s not deep it’s just a joke.

[@ahappycoder2925]

The mystery of life is not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Oh wait wrong book

[@justusb.plorer8773]

The universe experiencing itself you say? Sounds like the Minecraft end poem.

[@Shimamon27]

42 is a whole number. The world is whole!!!

[@praveenkashyap4498]

And natural too. So the whole world is Natural.

[@maxuniverse6002]

"...and it shsll be called..." -"DEEZ NUTS!!! HA! GAWT HEEM...."

[@tranduilmilord4464]

God, i love that book... this really helped me understand many things about life, universe and everything

[@davidmcaninch4714]

I watched this movie once. I couldn’t breathe because I was laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!😂😂😂

[@misterandylink]

I think there is another ultimate question of life. "Am I the only one?" That's the basis of communication if 3 people exist and one is a liar. How do you find out if you are one of the ones telling the truth? If you assume everyone is telling the truth then it becomes apparent immediately that someone is lying. Then you have to exchange information to figure it out.

[@AlexanderTheMiddle]

Wait what

[@Sigma0283]

1:00 Star Wars fans excited about The Force Awakens 1:48 - 1:52 The fan’s reaction when J. J. Abrams said the Expanded Universe is not canon.

[@blueshit199]

star wars fans are the type of people to be still bitter about this 7 million years from now, that's for sure

[@Doombringer_r]

@@blueshit199 Cause it was a shitty move especially after their head writers started shitting on Legends and it’s fans lol, 30 years down the drain

[@blueshit199]

@@Doombringer_r never read any of it, i have a life

[@naytball1681]

42, 4 2, in Japanese that's shi ni, shini means death.

[@machiavellianintrospection4986]

Nayt Ball Technically, the accurate translation of “death” is “死ぬ” or “shinu”

[@danieljoseph7188]

The only reason why I know Shini means death (or shinu, whatever) is because of Death Note :)

[@TheProdigalNinja]

42 in Japanese is Yon Jyuu Ni 😂

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Makes sense, the meaning of life is death.

[@prolo6309]

Yeah but 4 is shi and 2 is ni

[@viktorsilva4017]

Asimov's Cosmic AC had the answer to everything "Let there be light"

[@dopenoodle3052]

Idk guys 42, sounds pretty legit to me

[@JeanPierreBro]

Me: "The answer to life is.." *Snoop Dogg interruptedly opens the door* Snoop: "Delta-Nine-Tetrahydrocannabinol" Me: "Isn't that the main chemical in.." Snoop: "Marijuana motherfucker, also known as THC."

[@AnoAssassin]

+Kemal P. Oh I know that movie

[@saintlionel5253]

+Kemal P. I FUCKING LOVE YOU FOR MAKING A MAC AND DEVIN REFERENCE.

[@joebyrneleighlinbridge3244]

+MrEnklave Well wholly god

[@josephjackson1956]

When someone gets an answer of 42, they just lose their marbles.

[@Grimsnarl]

The girl who throws her flowers and walks away is one of the best bits of the movie.