Popular with Computer Scientists... the inside joke "42" shows up in a lot of Hacker Culture... "42" turns out to be an unsatisfying answer to Life, The Universe and Everything... BECAUSE the question is not clearly stated... at the end, the QUESTION is What is 6 times 9... so... everything is based on a Math Error...
"Resistance is Futile" is what the aliens (VOGONS) say to the hero when he is abducted...
also the name of an Ann Coulter Book about Republican Politics... I guess she is a fan of Douglas Adams or maybe she is a VOGON...
https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
"Resistance is Futile" is what the aliens (VOGONS) say to the hero when he is abducted...
also the name of an Ann Coulter Book about Republican Politics... I guess she is a fan of Douglas Adams or maybe she is a VOGON...
https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot...
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