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    News Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything


    Today is 10/10/10, but it’s even more than that. Today is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. How? Keep reading.
    How Does 10/10/10 Equal 42?

    If you pop open your calculator, put it into Programmer mode, click the Binary button, and then type in 101010, you’ll see that flipping to Decimal mode shows you 42 instead.


    And of course, if you actually learn how the Binary numeral system works, you’ll earn some geek points.



    Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything




    In the science fiction novel (and movie) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there’s a giant computer that’s trying to figure out the ultimate answer to the ultimate questions in the universe—here’s the quote from Wikipedia:
    a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7ฝ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown.
    In fact, if you search Google for “answer to life the universe and everything”, it will spit out 42, in a lot less than 7.5 million years, of course.



    Isn’t Pointless Geek Knowledge Fun?

    Of course, this is all quite silly, but it’s fun to learn the background behind some of these things.
    And don’t forget, this morning at 10:10 and 10 seconds, it will be 10/10/10 – 10:10:10, the only time that will happen for another 100 years.


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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    ...and as always there's some fucker who just wants to steal the limelight


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11507505

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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    Quote Originally Posted by dpSparhawk View Post
    ...and as always there's some fucker who just wants to steal the limelight


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-11507505

    I doubt the little fat fucker will turn 50 though unless he has a lifestyle change.
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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    That's just made me realise, I'm going to turn 30 on 11/11/11

    Fuck you all, I'm special like Fat George too

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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    Quote Originally Posted by cyprus View Post
    That's just made me realise, I'm going to turn 30 on 11/11/11

    Fuck you all, I'm special like Fat George too
    That's a whole "different" kind of special though. . . . . . . .
    If at first you don't succeed.....redefine success. . . .


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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    Quote Originally Posted by blaggard View Post
    That's a whole "different" kind of special though. . . . . . . .
    Yep, special needs like a double portion of Tzatziki on his Gyros ,if he wants to compete with that little porker George.
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    Default Re: Today is 10/10/10 – the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    why is it special its numbers we have made up and even then its not so special as its really 10,10,2010.

    id be more impressed at 10:10am10sec on 10.10.1010 but thats gone now

    wheres all the doomsayers when you need them, im sure this significant date will mean armageddon to some
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