2006-08-12
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
不是开玩笑，你可以现在去google搜索一下，答案立刻出来~
银河系的人们很早就在思考这个问题，他们去询问宇宙最强的电脑Deep Thought。Deep Thought说这个问题需要思考7500万年。
7500万年后早已沧海桑田，千百万人欢呼着来到Deep Thought的广场，闪光灯闪烁一片，人们激动地等待谜底解开的一刻。
Deep Thought不慌不忙的说道：
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is --- ????...
众人哗然，我差点没晕过去。
昨天看了电影《The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy》，幽默不仅如上，十分推荐噢。
电影根据70年代BBC的一个著名同名广播剧改编。毫不夸张地说，这是一部想象、幽默都可以让你faint掉的电影，同时又能回味其中的讽刺。
Vogon人的官僚作风、附庸风雅，《Guide to the Galaxy》的科幻哲学解说，关于earth 2#的非凡创意，让人印象深刻却又不是一笑了之。
回到开头那个话题，你知道为什么终极问题的答案竟然是42么？
在你都不知道问题本身是什么的时候，你怎么会理解答案呢？人类啊，你的能窥视宇宙的全貌么？你真的能明白自身的意义么？
最后贴出开始问题的一个小解答，来自广播剧作者Douglas Adams。
Douglas Adams was asked many times during his career why he chose the number forty-two. Many theories were proposed, but he rejected them all. On November 2, 1993, he gave an answer on alt.fan.douglas-adams: The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
