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* The mice have had several million years to get complacent, and from the sound of it galactic civilization may have collapsed and re-emerged a time or three since the Earth was built. They probably weren't paying attention to galactic affairs very carefully.
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[[WMG:The Ultimate Question is something different to everyone.]]
Everyone is different, and everyone wonders about different things. The Ultimate Question is simply whatever question is most important to you. To Deep Thought, it just happens to be a question with the answer 42. Arthur hints at this in the 2005 movie when he claims that to him, the Ultimate Question is something entirely different: "Is she the one?" Of course, Earth and Deep Thought are separate entities, so between them, they would likely come up with a question and answer that don't go together. It's probably just as well that Earth never got to finish its calculations.
Everyone is different, and everyone wonders about different things. The Ultimate Question is simply whatever question is most important to you. To Deep Thought, it just happens to be a question with the answer 42. Arthur hints at this in the 2005 movie when he claims that to him, the Ultimate Question is something entirely different: "Is she the one?" Of course, Earth and Deep Thought are separate entities, so between them, they would likely come up with a question and answer that don't go together. It's probably just as well that Earth never got to finish its calculations.
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Thus, destroying the Universe and recreating into something even weirder depended on their emotions, wasn't really automatic. And such person would need to be emotionally unstable to figure it out at first, making it practically automatic in first place (I know it's confusing, but understandable after a certain point of view). So, I guess that's how [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]] got her powers and rebuilt the Universe through boredom (the Universe always being on risk of becoming even ''more'' weirder than the rebuild isn't mentioned in the books, but it's part of the New Order's weirdness); the fact that she doesn't know that she have powers is one more proof, how was she supposed to know that she knew the question ''and'' the answer, and those would give her such powers?
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Thus, destroying the Universe and recreating into something even weirder depended on their emotions, wasn't really automatic. And such person would need to be emotionally unstable to figure it out at first, making it practically automatic in first place (I know it's confusing, but understandable after a certain point of view). So, I guess that's how [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]] got her powers and rebuilt the Universe through boredom (the Universe always being on risk of becoming even ''more'' weirder than the rebuild isn't mentioned in the books, but it's part of the New Order's weirdness); the fact that she doesn't know that she have powers is one more proof, how was she supposed to know that she knew the question ''and'' the answer, and those would give her such powers?
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Merged trope per Wick Cleaning Projects
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Malphas accepts willingly and kindly any sacrifice offered to him, but then he will deceive the conjurer. - Just ''look'' at how it works [[JediTruth for]] Random.
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Malphas accepts willingly and kindly any sacrifice offered to him, but then he will deceive the conjurer. - Just ''look'' at how it works [[JediTruth [[MetaphoricallyTrue for]] Random.
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** You were right with the Question, but not with the Answer. "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" is a clue to the actual answer. Sure, there are 52 universe with their individual Earths, but you forget! The Anti-matter Universe still has its own Earth, and [[RealLife Earth-Prime]] obviously has its own Earth. Therefore you have 54 Earths, which is the answer to 6 times 9. ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis was not [[TakeThat intentionally]] an IdiotPlot, but rather a convoluted attempt to [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse other universes]] in order to make sure the initial answer is wrong. By Flashpoint, numerous other Crises and [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse DC's attitude to other universes]] reduced the number down to 42. This happened in Flashpoint, resulting in the ComicBook/New52. "How many Earths are there?" "54" as the original answer, which went down to "42."
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** [[invoked]] You were right with the Question, but not with the Answer. "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" is a clue to the actual answer. Sure, there are 52 universe with their individual Earths, but you forget! The Anti-matter Universe still has its own Earth, and [[RealLife Earth-Prime]] obviously has its own Earth. Therefore you have 54 Earths, which is the answer to 6 times 9. ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis was not [[TakeThat intentionally]] an IdiotPlot, but rather a convoluted attempt to [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse other universes]] in order to make sure the initial answer is wrong. By Flashpoint, numerous other Crises and [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse DC's attitude to other universes]] reduced the number down to 42. This happened in Flashpoint, resulting in the ComicBook/New52. "How many Earths are there?" "54" as the original answer, which went down to "42."
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Per this ATT thread
, I disambiguated all the Hitchhiker's Guide adaptation pages and am correcting the wicks to match. (Since most of the literature links mention 1979, the publication year of the first Hitchhiker's book, I decided to link to that specific installment's page instead of the overall trilogy.)
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[[WMG:[[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1978]]/[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1979]]/[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1981]]/[[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1984]]/[[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 2005]] is the year of the Rapture, the Vogons are God, Ford and Zaphod are angels and Arthur and Trillian were the only ones to be redeemed.]]
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[[WMG:Our ''real'' earth was destroyed -- ''repeatedly'' -- shortly before [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1978]], [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1979]]/[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1981]], [[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1984]] ''and'' [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 2005]], only for the Magratheans to re-create it.]]
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[[WMG:Our ''real'' earth was destroyed -- ''repeatedly'' -- shortly before [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978 1978]], [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 1979]]/[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 1979]]/[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 1981]], [[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984 1984]] ''and'' [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 2005]], only for the Magratheans to re-create it.]]
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** Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters…Pan Galactic…GAGA Blasters?!?!?!
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** Actually, there's like three different descriptions of the Heart of Gold. The running shoe, the tear-drop one from above, the flying tea cup from the movie, and whatever it actually was in the radio drama. Maybe they're all right, but it keeps changing shape because of the Infinite Improbability Drive? I mean, hell, it changed two missiles into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias...
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** Actually, there's like three different descriptions of the Heart of Gold. The running shoe, the tear-drop one from above, the flying tea cup pot from the movie, and whatever it actually was in the radio drama. Maybe they're all right, but it keeps changing shape because of the Infinite Improbability Drive? I mean, hell, it changed two missiles into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias...
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[[WMG: Slartibartfast's been to that miserable little planet as well.]]
After the events of Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything, Slartibartfast decided to return to the remains of Earth to comemmorate the destruction of Norway, and to hopefully get some closure. When he got there, though, he was amazed to find it intact, but perplexed that it hadn't returned the Question (as he was unaware of either the dolphins' or the Golgafrinchans' tampering). After reporting back to Magrathea, he was instructed to go down, see what was wrong, and do what he could to get things back on track. Landing in London in the early '80s, he adopted the identity of Sir Desmond Glazebrook, a rather amusingly bad financier and economist (his experience with the ''Bistromath'' having taught him that it didn't matter if he didn't understand human economics, because neither does anybody else). In his efforts to get things back on course, he worked his way into the British establishment, eventually managing to be made Governer of the Bank of England by the [[Series/YesMinister Hacker Government]].
As far as we know, he's still on Earth, still trying (fruitlessly and hopelessly) to get it to work properly. He's beginning to suspect, though, that if we haven't managed it in ten million years, it's probably going to take him more than forty.
After the events of Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything, Slartibartfast decided to return to the remains of Earth to comemmorate the destruction of Norway, and to hopefully get some closure. When he got there, though, he was amazed to find it intact, but perplexed that it hadn't returned the Question (as he was unaware of either the dolphins' or the Golgafrinchans' tampering). After reporting back to Magrathea, he was instructed to go down, see what was wrong, and do what he could to get things back on track. Landing in London in the early '80s, he adopted the identity of Sir Desmond Glazebrook, a rather amusingly bad financier and economist (his experience with the ''Bistromath'' having taught him that it didn't matter if he didn't understand human economics, because neither does anybody else). In his efforts to get things back on course, he worked his way into the British establishment, eventually managing to be made Governer of the Bank of England by the [[Series/YesMinister Hacker Government]].
As far as we know, he's still on Earth, still trying (fruitlessly and hopelessly) to get it to work properly. He's beginning to suspect, though, that if we haven't managed it in ten million years, it's probably going to take him more than forty.
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Alt-Arthur suddenly got the mind of Arthur-prime while they happened to be flying through the same point in space-time but different points on the axis of probability. See the preceding case of [[Discworld/TheColourOfMagic Doctor Rjinswan]].
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Alt-Arthur suddenly got the mind of Arthur-prime while they happened to be flying through the same point in space-time but different points on the axis of probability. See the preceding case of [[Discworld/TheColourOfMagic [[Literature/TheColourOfMagic Doctor Rjinswan]].
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*** C macros work by being a literal copy-paste. Since there are no parentheses in those #defines, PEMDAS would not work. This is also a source of many, many software bugs in the last 50 years.
