I guess we now know the question.

[hfojvt]

The answer, if you recall, was 42.

But what was the question?

Now we know.

[olddots]

1. level 42 ?

number 23 sector 7

[hfojvt]

2. I think today is supposed to be 42 day.

This is important, people, it's life, the universe, and everything, including frogs.

[antiquie]

3. It's 47 now.

Trek inflation.

[Bucky]

9. I'm a trekkie, but 47 was never the answer

Trek is not even close enough to compare to 42

[antiquie]

11. I'm a trekker

not a trekkie

The number 47 makes frequent recurrences in dialog and on computer screens in Star Trek.

The origin of the significance of 47 can be traced to The Next Generation and Voyager writer Joe Menosky, who attended Pomona College in California. There is a club at Pomona called The 47 Society, which claims that there exists a mathematical proof that all numbers are equal to 47, and that the number 47 occurs with greater frequency in nature than other numbers - 74 makes frequent reappearances as well.

Joe Menosky first started including references to 47 in his scripts in the fourth season of TNG, and the in-joke quickly caught on among the rest of the staff. Since then, references to 47 have been included in many episodes and movies of all the modern series.

According to Ronald D. Moore, the number of 47 references in later seasons of Deep Space Nine declined as the production staff tired of the joke. (AOL chat, 1997)

When asked about the significance of the number, Rick Berman once joked, "47 is 42, corrected for inflation" referring to 42 being "the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

[Bucky]

14. Everyone knows what 47 is in Trek lingo. It's still not as brilliant as 42

You Trekkers are fanatics, blind fanatics, I say--like the Opus Dei of sci-fi fandom. Seriously, Trekkers are worse than those Dr. Who geeks. After I identified myself as a Trekkie, how could you not see posting the above was patronizing and gravely insulting?

[antiquie]

15. Have a better evening,

I do not understand why you are offended: this is the lounge

[Paulie]

4. Towel day is May 25.

Unless you're talking sports.

[hfojvt]

5. towels are the most massively useful device a hitchhiker can carry

but they are NOT the answer to life, the universe and everything.

And today is the day for #42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_Day

[Paulie]

6. I don't follow cricket.

[Myrina]

7. 42 is the answer to EVERY question.

[In_The_Wind]

8. 42 ...

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life

the Universe

and Everything




No we don't!

[Quantess]

10. 3 x 7 x 2

[NightWatcher]

12. who's on first, second, third, short, outfield, pitching, and catching?

[hfojvt]

13. I don't know

[Rosco T.]

16. What do you get when you multiply six by nine.

something is fundamentally wrong with the universe

[hfojvt]

17. not any more

not since Jackie Robinson started playing pro ball.