Loonquawl and Phouchg hearing the Answer forty-two in Episode 4 of the TV series.ĭeep Thought had warned them that they wouldn't like the answer, and they didn't respond enthusiastically, though Deep Thought pointed out that they had never specified or even known exactly what the Ultimate Question was. Then, seven and a half million years later (seventy-five generations later), it was their descendants Loonquawl and Phouchg who were the ones to hear the Answer of forty-two. In both the radio series and the novel, it is stated that two programmers named Lunkwill and Fook were the ones to turn on Deep Thought and were the first to address it. The discovery of forty-two (the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything) appears in every version of the Hitchhiker's story, as does Deep Thought, though with some minor changes. When his friend, Ford Prefect, lines up the tiles, they spell, 'What do you get when you multiply six by nine?' One of the only two humans who had survived the destruction of Earth, namely Arthur Dent, pulls random Scrabble tiles from a bag, so as to reveal information in his subconscious ( Marvin announced that Arthur had the Question imprinted in his brainwaves). The Earth was destroyed by the Vogons five minutes before its ten-million year program to find the Ultimate Question was due to be completed.
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