13. The true meaning of 42In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by a race of hyper-intelligent alien beings to determine the answer to "life, the universe, and everything". Deep Thought determines that the answer is somewhat anticlimactically "42". It sounds like a joke, but is there more to this answer? Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd and knew a heck of a lot about programming language and coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as "whatever you want it to be". In ASCII language, the most basic computer software, "42" is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, Deep Thought, was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would: "42" = "anything you want it to be". Genius.Thought this was interesting-Stoic Joker (June 16, 2020, 12:33 PM)
13. The true meaning of 42In The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by a race of hyper-intelligent alien beings to determine the answer to "life, the universe, and everything". Deep Thought determines that the answer is somewhat anticlimactically "42". It sounds like a joke, but is there more to this answer? Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd and knew a heck of a lot about programming language and coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as "whatever you want it to be". In ASCII language, the most basic computer software, "42" is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, Deep Thought, was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would: "42" = "anything you want it to be". Genius.
I've heard people complain that wearing masks makes it hard to breathe, but how the smurf are you supposed to breathe in that thing? -Deozaan (August 16, 2020, 11:37 AM)