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"The great supercomputer Deep Thought is the most powerful computer ever built, with one exception. It was designed by hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, who wanted to know the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Its creation annoyed a fair few philosophers, who felt that it was taking over their turf.

After seven and a half million years of serious cogitation, Deep Thought spoke the answer. However, it was so inexplicable that Deep Thought then had to go on and design the most powerful computer ever built (with no exceptions) to work out what the question was."




Feels very much like we are entering the Happy Vertical People Transporters era.

How long till the air con goes on strike for miserable working conditions?

"Brain the size of a planet and they ask me write a lesson plan in the style of a pirate" - chatgpt5, probably...


And that was earth, so are we asking the right questions?


and the answer to question of life is 42.




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