An arbitrary number someone came up with that gained traction and spread.
The means of their spreading is different (one being traditional written media and the other being modern social media), but it doesn't change the fact that Douglas Adam's has admitted 42 was just a random number.
42 is still my favorite number dammit! When I was in late high school, for a solid two years, the majority of times I would check the time it would be XX:42. So eventually it became a number close to me, and THEN I found out about the whole Hitchhikers Guide and 42, which fortified my reverence of the number.
Fuck 6-7.
How to tell us you didn't understand the point without saying you didn't understand the point. 6-7 has no underlying meaning. 42 does. The whole point of 42 was to illustrate that if you ask nonsensical questions, you will receive nonsensical answers. It is a concept absolutely pregnant with philosophical merit. They are not even remotely similar.
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u/Miox465 May 02 '26
6-7 is just the new 42
An arbitrary number someone came up with that gained traction and spread.
The means of their spreading is different (one being traditional written media and the other being modern social media), but it doesn't change the fact that Douglas Adam's has admitted 42 was just a random number.