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No it isn't. THe computer never said the question was wrong, the question was very right. It said that we never understood what the question meant.
That in no way equates to the question is wrong, it just means they don't understand it.
The Question is Wrong you *****.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/question.shtml
Earth was destroyed 6 minutes before the computation of the question was completed
Edited, Thu Jun 17 02:30:08 2004 by Kelvyquayo
Edited, Thu Jun 17 02:33:42 2004 by Kelvyquayo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/question.shtml
Earth was destroyed 6 minutes before the computation of the question was completed
Edited, Thu Jun 17 02:30:08 2004 by Kelvyquayo
Edited, Thu Jun 17 02:33:42 2004 by Kelvyquayo
Kelvyquayo, you're an idiot.
The question wasn't wrong. The question can't be wrong. A question can NEVER be wrong. It's IMPOSSIBLE FOR A QUESTION TO BE WRONG, BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN ANSWER, AND IS NOT SOMETHING THAT DETERMINES THE MEANING OF SOMETHING.
It is the process of determining a meaning, but a question can't be wrong, unless it is used as an answer in some sort of obscure way, but a question, it cannot be wrong.
A question is used to find the answer, it is not the answer. The answer can be wrong, the question cannot.
"Is the sky blue?" cannot be right or wrong, as it gives no information, it asks it.
The question was not wrong. It was not understood. The meaning of life is not something we know, therefor we can't question it.
To sum this up: You're wrong.
The question wasn't wrong. The question can't be wrong. A question can NEVER be wrong. It's IMPOSSIBLE FOR A QUESTION TO BE WRONG, BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN ANSWER, AND IS NOT SOMETHING THAT DETERMINES THE MEANING OF SOMETHING.
It is the process of determining a meaning, but a question can't be wrong, unless it is used as an answer in some sort of obscure way, but a question, it cannot be wrong.
A question is used to find the answer, it is not the answer. The answer can be wrong, the question cannot.
"Is the sky blue?" cannot be right or wrong, as it gives no information, it asks it.
The question was not wrong. It was not understood. The meaning of life is not something we know, therefor we can't question it.
To sum this up: You're wrong.
**** head
The Computer was to generate the ultimate question, wahtever that question may be. The Earth being destroyed before the computation was completed means that the resulting produced question was NOT waht the intended question should have been and all basis for said question was false TRICKSEY. The Earth being destroyed, messed up the question.... how much clearer does it have to be?
To sum it up: **** **** ****
The Computer was to generate the ultimate question, wahtever that question may be. The Earth being destroyed before the computation was completed means that the resulting produced question was NOT waht the intended question should have been and all basis for said question was false TRICKSEY. The Earth being destroyed, messed up the question.... how much clearer does it have to be?
To sum it up: **** **** ****
Wrong again. They were asking the meaning of the question, foolish one!
Just go Play FFXI...
Been listening to Reunion for the past 12 hours.... I have Spiral Architect stuck in my head, but I think War Pigs makes a bigger political statement.
No idea...don't care to find out.
"I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in it's wisdom aspect."
-Alex Grey
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When I heard the learned astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
-Walt Whitman
"I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in it's wisdom aspect."
-Alex Grey
-----
When I heard the learned astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wandered off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
-Walt Whitman
GOD DAMNIT I went to bed to soon. Taeldar I have a hot tub in massachusetts ya know, it's big, and there are NO parents around. And none of these guys hold a candle to my flattery.
Moebius is still king of flatulance though, you ******* *** hat.
Moebius is still king of flatulance though, you ******* *** hat.
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All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
That was not created by me, it is a quote from a book called Timequake, written by Kurt Vonnasomething.
That was not created by me, it is a quote from a book called Timequake, written by Kurt Vonnasomething.
I think its Kurt Vonnagut. Not positive though.
Newton, you sure you wanna compete for the title "Plague of Redundancy"? I'm sure Yanari is dying for some competition.
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Newton, you sure you wanna compete for the title "Plague of Redundancy"? I'm sure Yanari is dying for some competition.
What the thread or my posts? Tell me which one please and I'll say something you've never heard before.
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The Question
It has been shown that there is an answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything. It was computed by Deep Thought, but really didn't seem to provide , well... an answer.
The great computer kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the computer designed its successor, the Earth, to find the question to the ultimate answer.
However, due to a slight Golgafrincham problem, and a small hooha with some Vogons the program went a bit wrong. The whole problem remains just as mysterious as it always has been, but a little more frustrating.
It has been shown that there is an answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything. It was computed by Deep Thought, but really didn't seem to provide , well... an answer.
The great computer kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the computer designed its successor, the Earth, to find the question to the ultimate answer.
However, due to a slight Golgafrincham problem, and a small hooha with some Vogons the program went a bit wrong. The whole problem remains just as mysterious as it always has been, but a little more frustrating.
This is straight from the page you linked there Kelvy.
Kinda explains itself doesn't it? But you seem to be a little slow catching on, so I'll use crayons and highlighters to draw it out for you.
The question is/was/never will be wrong. The question was not understood/nobody knew the question.
The program however, went wrong. The destruction of the ******* earth kinda threw a cog into the whole thing.
If you are still confused about the whole thing, all I can tell you is go pick up the books and read them, and stop trying to glean your ******* information from web pages.
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Just started it, very good so far. The author is nutty, I love it.
Your life or the book?
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Oh hell camp me all you want f**kers. I own this site and thus I own you. - Allakhazam
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Aude Sapere
Oh hell camp me all you want f**kers. I own this site and thus I own you. - Allakhazam
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Your life or the book?
Although my life is nutty, and I do love it, I didn't just start my life, I've been around a good 23 years now.
I was generally upset I left this book at work.
Have any of you read "Me talk pretty one day" or "Dress your family in Corduroy and Denim"?
I was book shopping with Flea and those two stood out, before that day I'd never heard of either. I almost bought them but I have books to read still. The next day I was listening to NPR and the author was being interviewed, listening to that made me want to read those books even more.
Ths is an exercise in futility.
It is unknown.. you don't know I don't know, and we can't prove anything to each other.
My original statment : "wrong question i think." does not point either way. Your just getting your jollies bashing me.
I am not saying the Proposed question is not; waht is the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything? I am just pointing out that it may be the case that the answer "42" may be an answer to a wrong question.
The OT was anyway you fuc[/b]ktards.... where does the Universe and Everything come into play??..
must suck to be too stupid to think outside the box
The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, as given by the supercomputer Deep Thought to a group of mice, is "forty-two". According to the Guide, mice are 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings. They built Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to tell them the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulges the answer: forty-two.
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
The computer informs the researchers that it will design for them a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. That computer was called Earth and was so big that it was often mistaken for a planet. The question was lost minutes before it was due to be produced, due to the Vogons' demolition of the Earth, supposedly to build a hyperspace bypass. (Later in the series, it is revealed that the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of philosophers and psychiatrists who feared for their jobs should the meaning of life become common knowledge.)
Already booked for a round of talk-show appearances to reveal the Question, the mice become desperate to discover it. During a meeting with Arthur Dent and his companions on the planet Magrathea, Frankie and Benjy mouse reveal a plan to extract the ultimate question from Arthur's brain. Since this involves removing and dicing his brain, Arthur is unwilling to go along with the plan. He manages to escape from them unscathed.
Lacking a real answer, the mice proposed to use [b]"How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' in the Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?" - actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard". However, this may also refer to the Vogon Constructor Fleet that demolished Earth, in that they were yellow and most certainly dangerous.
At the end of the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (volume 2 of the Hitchhiker's trilogy), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
Since 6 * 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question. After all, Arthur Dent comprised only a minuscule fragment of the vast and complex computer matrix that was the Earth, and besides, it was stated that the computer's run had not finished when it was destroyed. In addition, Arthur and Ford realized that the original ape-like inhabitants of Earth were displaced by the Golgafrinchans, which could account for the irrational nature of the question in Arthur's mind (as he himself is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans).
However, it was later pointed out that 6 * 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10. Douglas Adams was not aware of this at the time, and has since been quoted as saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13."
In the original radio series, this scene occurs at the end of the first series (Fit the Sixth). On discovering the question, Arthur Dent remarks "I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.".
"42" is often used in a similar manner to a metasyntactic variable; 42 is often used in testing programs as a common initializer for integer variables.
On a side note, I think Douglas Adams would be tickled to as hell to see this debate.
Edited, Thu Jun 17 14:08:15 2004 by Kelvyquayo
It is unknown.. you don't know I don't know, and we can't prove anything to each other.
My original statment : "wrong question i think." does not point either way. Your just getting your jollies bashing me.
I am not saying the Proposed question is not; waht is the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything? I am just pointing out that it may be the case that the answer "42" may be an answer to a wrong question.
The OT was
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The Meaning of Life
must suck to be too stupid to think outside the box
The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, as given by the supercomputer Deep Thought to a group of mice, is "forty-two". According to the Guide, mice are 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings. They built Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to tell them the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulges the answer: forty-two.
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
The computer informs the researchers that it will design for them a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. That computer was called Earth and was so big that it was often mistaken for a planet. The question was lost minutes before it was due to be produced, due to the Vogons' demolition of the Earth, supposedly to build a hyperspace bypass. (Later in the series, it is revealed that the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of philosophers and psychiatrists who feared for their jobs should the meaning of life become common knowledge.)
Already booked for a round of talk-show appearances to reveal the Question, the mice become desperate to discover it. During a meeting with Arthur Dent and his companions on the planet Magrathea, Frankie and Benjy mouse reveal a plan to extract the ultimate question from Arthur's brain. Since this involves removing and dicing his brain, Arthur is unwilling to go along with the plan. He manages to escape from them unscathed.
Lacking a real answer, the mice proposed to use [b]"How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' in the Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?" - actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard". However, this may also refer to the Vogon Constructor Fleet that demolished Earth, in that they were yellow and most certainly dangerous.
At the end of the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (volume 2 of the Hitchhiker's trilogy), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
Since 6 * 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question. After all, Arthur Dent comprised only a minuscule fragment of the vast and complex computer matrix that was the Earth, and besides, it was stated that the computer's run had not finished when it was destroyed. In addition, Arthur and Ford realized that the original ape-like inhabitants of Earth were displaced by the Golgafrinchans, which could account for the irrational nature of the question in Arthur's mind (as he himself is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans).
However, it was later pointed out that 6 * 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10. Douglas Adams was not aware of this at the time, and has since been quoted as saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13."
In the original radio series, this scene occurs at the end of the first series (Fit the Sixth). On discovering the question, Arthur Dent remarks "I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.".
"42" is often used in a similar manner to a metasyntactic variable; 42 is often used in testing programs as a common initializer for integer variables.
On a side note, I think Douglas Adams would be tickled to as hell to see this debate.
Edited, Thu Jun 17 14:08:15 2004 by Kelvyquayo
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