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: MarlaEnough 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.... -------