the meaning of life:
passing on your genetic material in any way possible, its sad and decrementing, but true.

in other words, you live to have ***.

"It's the answer to life the universe and everything."

Technically, it's the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything

@everyone I give you the real meaning life...

life is simply what happens in the right physical environment (basicly in the right conditions life will begin and in time the whole of evolution)

And the question can not be known as long as the answer is known in the same universe. If it was to become known, the universe would cease to exist and a more complex one would be created. This may have already happened, more than once even, and our universe may be the result.

Has anyone else actually read the whole book series. Not just read the first, saw the movie, or heard a lot of references. I highly recommended it. If you don't like reading find an audiobook or the BBC radio broadcast, but I hear the radio series has some differences, still closer than the movie though.

@cctvdude99 The question is 6 times 9 in base 13.

Bah, all this 42, omega number, bull****. The human mind looks for patterns, even when they are not there. Just a coincidence.

@vcordie
Exactly! A smart person for once! Just like the face on Mars, the brain has to look for patterns and the face is a great example.

@vcordie
The human mind assumes there are no patterns when they are there, in your case.

There is no meaning of life. Life was an accident.
Life is just waste matter that the universe was never meant to have in it.

But, in my opinion, the meaning of life is to be alive :D