From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SELINGER@RU-GREEN@RUTGERS
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.234
Posted: Tue Dec 28 15:47:00 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 04:16:26 1983

From:  Marla 


	Enough speculation on Star Trek III and Star Wars NNN.....
What about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Part IV?
	Here's an interesting point to brood on....
	In the series, when the 'Disaster Area' ship is about to
plunge into the sun with our heroes, Marvin reveals that HE knows
the question to Life, the Universe and Everything, to which the
answer is 42.  How is this so?  Well, dear viewers, remember that
key phrase that Marvin uttered about 3 times in every episode?
"...Brain the size of a planet, and THEY want me to...." ...walk
the dog, make tea, etc.  Interesting.  Marvin was probably quite
a few generations away from Deep Thought, and perhaps even from
that Mega-computer we all knew as Earth.  Now, Earth's program
was 'only' scheduled to run for 10 million years.  However, while
our heroes were dining at the Restauran' at the End of the Universe,
Marvin had many, many millions of years to wait around.  He must
have done *something* besides park cars!  Yes, folks, he would
have been able to run the 'Earth' program a few times, just for
monotony's sake!  Given the starting data, he could, reasonably,
extrapolate the question!
	
	Unfortunately, Marvin was left diving into the sun at
the end of episode 7.....ah, well, the best laid plans of mice....

-------