finally, the real answer to life, universe and everything. cut from the brilliant movie: the hitchhikers guide trough the galaxy. and we all know it is 42 ;) go and watch the movie!
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."
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.
@@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 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?
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
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
@@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🤣🤣🤣
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
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.
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
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.
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@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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?).
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
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."
@@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.
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.)
* 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.
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.
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.
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
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…..
this is a joke from the author, humans are not capable of giving their own life their own sense, we all need to be called for something else we wont find sense.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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!
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?"
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?
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.
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 RU-vid is controlled by that ancient god computer (Beetlejuice) who knows exactly when to recommend the video
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.
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.
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.
Everyone misses the reference to 42. It is not multiplication or some long formula, and it is most definitely not at random. To understand it, you must understand computers on a basic level. They asked a computer the question, not an organic life form. Computers are based on programs, and computer code to decypher massive amounts of data. In programming, there is often a "wildcard"... a symbol that can be anything you want or anything you need in an equation. This is usually shown as an asterisk, "*" , and the formula is worked out around it. If you look up an ASCII table... the table that specifies all the characters in a computer... the "*" is symbol 42. Therefore, the computer was literally saying, "The meaning of life is * ." Or in other words, "The meaning of life is anything you want it to be, anything you need."
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.
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
@@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👍🏻
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
+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"
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 :) ..
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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
Guys, it is 42 because "the answer to life universe and everything" has 42 characters in it, including spaces. If you know coding, this makes sense because all strings (texts) has the length value in them.
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)
"Four" in Japanese is "Shi" "Two" in Japanese is "Ni" 42 = "Four-Two" = "Shini" "Shini" means "Death". *The answer to life, the universe and everything is death.*
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
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."
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...
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.
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.
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)
42. The answer can also be said as “6•6•6”. All life is carbon based. One carbon atom is comprised of 6 neutrons, 6 protons and 4 electrons. Carbon interacts with everything on the periodic table more easily than any other element. When carbon combines with another atom it shares two electrons. 6•6•2,4,6. 42
People:what is the meaning of life? Computer:come back here 7.5 million years later you will have your answer *7.5 million years later* People: give use the answer now Computer:42 People: *ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?*
Father, today we proclaim Your Name, the Name of the Lord. You are glorious. You are our Rock and Your deeds are perfect. Everything You do is just and fair. You are faithful and You do no wrong. How just and upright You are! Your unfailing love toward those who fear You is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. Let the whole world fear and stand in awe of You Lord. You spoke and the world began; it appeared at Your command. Lord, You are our inheritance and hope. Thank You, Father, for Your love and compassion. Thank You for keeping Your covenant with us throughout the ages. Thank You for making us Your people. What a joy it is to be one of Your children. Father, You are good and Your faithful love endures forever.
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'.
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.
