Why do people answer so many philosophical questions with 42?

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two

42 is the answer to everything, the universe, the meaning of life, the world. Everything just comes down to 42. I don't know why. It just does. Do not question what is true.

Its a joke from HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Some character in the movie asked what the answer to life was and it was (42)....its been a long time since I saw it but its in there somewhere.

htey're just gay

its from the novel made into movie "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"

where there was this race that amde a super computer and asked it "wat is the answer to the universe" and it said it wud have the answer in like 30 million years or sumthing

and then wen they finally were ready to hear it the computer goes "the answer to the universe is...42."

and theres confusion and the computer goes "u shud have asked me what the QUESTION to the universe was."

so now we have the answer but we don't have the question. kinda sux, and ppl are just gay and do answer questions that way.

specific there is lol, its from the e book A Hitchhikers handbook to the Galaxy. i can not undergo in techniques who wrote it, despite the fact that it replaced into additionally made right into a exceedingly humorous action picture. reliable to lease some Friday night once you experience a comedy.

i dont i say 7

I have no idea.