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I did not know that.
Didn't Douglas Adams recently adjourn to the right hand of Hubble, there to claim his 42 virgins in Paradise?
Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Gorman [SMTP:Tim_at_SageLogix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:38 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: How to drop a datafile from a tablespace quickly
>
> Scott,
>
> Did you hear that Douglas Adams was asked recently (i.e. a few years ago)
> how he knew the "Hubble Constant" was (roughly) 42, back when he wrote the
> "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" series back in the 60s and 70s? The
> Hubble Constant (having to do with the rate of expansion of the universe,
> I
> think) had just been discovered to be 42, sometime in the mid-90s, I
> believe...
>
> His response was something along the lines of "Well, actually I didn't
> know,
> of course. It's just that I needed an answer to the question 'What is the
> meaning of life, the universe, and everything?' and 42 seemed like an
> appropriate answer. Just an ordinary, sort of smallish number"...
>
> I have to go back and re-read those...
>
> -Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:03 PM
>
>
> > Exactly my point. The answer is 42.
>
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