42 Mystery Cache
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"According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the Ultimate Answer. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two."
Douglas Adams
If 42 is the Answer, what is the Question?
"At the end of the first radio series, the television series, and the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the second book of the five-book 'trilogy'), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence:
"WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?"
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Several explanations have been proposed for how six times nine could possibly be forty-two. The one that Douglas Adams dismissed, saying he didn't joke in that way, will let you discover the cache at:
17953078167701360
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Chmmyr Uvag: Cnfgr vg.
Purpx bhg zl 3/23/2010 ybt sbhaq va zl 42aq pnpur.
Nqqvgvbany uvag sbe svaqvat pnpur: Ybpngvba unf fbzrguvat gb qb jvgu gur gvgyr bs guvf yvfgvat.
Pbhag fgrcf hc sebz fbhgu tngr.
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