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From: eaobrien@ebi.ac.uk (Emmet O'Brien)
Subject: Re: We are all controlled by the reptilian section of our brains.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:54:17 GMT
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In article <3vb7j2$fnh@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:
>In article <3v7nat$6gv@cicg-communication.grenet.fr>, francois@dodge.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Francois Dagand) writes:
	
>[ Douglas Adam's Ultimate Question to the Ultimate Answer to Life, the
>Universe, and everything, Fourty-Two ]
	
>|> I thought the question was "what is 6 times 9" (42). The fact that
>|> everybody thinks 6 times 9 is 54 explains why the universe is such
>|> a mess...
	
>In the radio series, the ultimate question is drawn from a bag of
>scrabble tiles, which spell out: "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX
>BY NINE".  There may be other ultimate questions, but this was the
>first.
	
  Point being, by that stage the Golgafrinchans had crashed on Earth, Earth's
 apemen were dying, and Earth's program to find the Question is shown by
 this obviously wrong Question to be banjaxed.

                                      E
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 Science does have all the answers. We just don't have all the science.
