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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: More questions that are not the ultimate question
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 21:44:51 EST
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   Brad, just because, once both the ultimate question and answer to Life,
the Universe etc. are known, the universe will be replaced by something
even more bizarre and inexplicable, it doesn't necessarily follow
that once the question is stated, the universe will be destroyed, or
that anybody about to state it must perforce die before finishing it.
First, >somebody< must first realize that the question goes with the
answer (just because a grade 3 kid has heard the question "what's
6*9", and has seen the number "42", that doesn't mean that he >knows<
that "6*9=42").
Secondly, the even more bizarre and inexplicable universe may be one
exactly like ours, with all of us in it, not realizing that anything
has changed, except that the answer to the ultimate question is
something even more bizarre and inexplicable (or more common and
mundane!) than 42.

-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll