Robots : Computers

 The Answer is ... 42

I love computers, I work on four of them each day ! Three Macs and one Dell and the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is ... 42. This was the answer the Deep Thought gave to our weary band of travellers in The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I told you I am a big "Don't Panek !" nerd and I will be constantly referring and referencing the Guide in my posts to come on the Blog. So then our merry group of travellers then go on to search for the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.

Deep Thought is a computer that was created by a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent species of beings (whose three-dimensional protrusions into our universe are ordinary white mice) to come up with the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Deep Thought is the size of a small city. When, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the answer finally turns out to be 42, Deep Thought admonishes Loonquawl and Phouchg (the receivers of the Ultimate Answer) that "[she] checked it very thoroughly, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you is that you've never actually known what the question was."

Deep Thought does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer, Earth, to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete.