Life, the universe and everything

Douglas Adams left behind probably one of life's biggest questions, well, answers. 42.

- Hein Kaiser

It's the sum response to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. And while nobody had any clue what the question to the answer was, or is for that matter, it has sparked speculation and introspection among the kind of folk who don tin foil helmets.

The people who believe that conspiracy theorist David Icke knows the truth behind the lizards that really rule the world from Buckingham Palace.

But anyone's who's ever read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy would also have been wondering why Deep Thought, a foreshadowing of generative AI in a way, came up with the number courtesy of Adam's imagination.