Scientists Discover Meaning of Life Through Massive Computing Project 123
First time accepted submitter Rabbit327 writes In a stunning announcement today scientists have announced that after millions of cycles of computing time on some of the largest super computers that they have discovered the meaning of life. On April 1st 2015 at approximately 03:42 GMT scientists discovered that a long running program had finished. The results stunned scientists who were having tea in the other room when the alarm went off. According to the scientific team the answer was stunning yet confusing. Quoting one scientist "It's amazing. It worked! But what does it mean?!? For heaven's sake we spent all this time calculating the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe, and everything. This is the answer we get?!? This is the bloody answer we get?!?!??!?" after which the scientist promptly threw a keyboard across the room. According to inside sources the answer given by the computer was "42". What this means will be announced later according to a research representative.
Lame, lame, lame (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Lame, lame, lame (Score:5, Funny)
If you complain, you get /. beta.
- Dice.moc
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I don't care. Who enjoys reading this crap anyhow? I hate April Fools Day.
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Good answers. One minor quibble: the rest of the world pretty much ignores AC's. I fact, I think there's an option to turn them off. I'll see if I can't find that for today only.
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No joy. I guess I'll just trim the score 0's.
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I think you summed it up phantomfive. I'm just wetting my self laughing that your mod as troll for enjoying something geeky sums up just how lame all these haters have been made to look.
The people modded up are the ones that look like jerks. I hope I get modded down too.
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Dice.moc?
Oh great, Dice is using Qt
Re: Lame, lame, lame (Score:1)
That would have been a good April Fools joke story: "Slashdot to Deploy 'Beta' in Full by May 2015"
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If you are reading this Samz/Zonk, message for help by making the first letter of each word of the title of the next article spell out "SOS". Be discreet about it so that your captors remain unaware.
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After seeing all these strange articles, I have come to the conclusion that these are not April Fools jokes. A real slashdot april fools joke would have been witty and subtle.
You are to be commended for the only constructive criticism I've seen so far among a flurry of comments best translated as, "I dinna like it, can't tell you what I like but I'll know when I see it. Next!". Like a game of darts where you score by hitting the other players.
My submission Evidence Suggests LHC Test Already Begun [slashdot.org] did not make the front page lineup, maybe it was too subtle.
'42:MOL' has achieved cultural Trope [wiktionary.org] status for many of us. If I am ever on an elevator with a 42nd floor button, I for one
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This site bills itself as news for nerds. Self respecting nerds should be familiar with the Hitchhiker's Guide and its main tropes, even if they choose not to read it.
For me, the fact that it was presented as a straight up news story was what made the post work.
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The worst thing about it is that, unlike other sites, Slashdot is completely worthless and unusable today. I keep loading it out of habit to check throughout the day and forget that there's not a single thing I want to read. I've been going back to yesterday's stories to see if I missed anything.
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Scientists Discover Meaning of Life Through Massive Computing Project - And It's Not 42!
Because the real answer is "potato".
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not an article (Score:2)
it was funny the first 100 times.
also, if it was posted as news on CNN or whatever, sure yeah, a link to there would be worth it. but this year slashdot was just full of these fucking shitty old "jokes" that were posted only to slashdot. like, for april 1st slashdot turned into an original news site with no source attribution or nothing. shitty jokes with links to something that explains the joke and no other link in the summary(that is to say the "summary" became the article).
it's shit.
it's shit.
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Indeed. It would have been funny if the answer was "There is now". But as is, it's just lame.
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That's my point, a crossover - substituting on for the other at the last moment would have been funny.
Not to the pedantic wing of the nerd community, but they often miss the point.
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"Not even funny. Someone please make it STOP!!!"
To do that, you have to turn off all the lights in this room, close the door, and then press the black STOP button, which then lights up black to indicate that your wish has been granted.
[Hushed chorus] Glad to be of service...
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I agree.
Someone didn't THINK too DEEPLY about this...
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Not even funny. Someone please make it STOP!!!
Relax :), why don't you just think of them like puzzles? Try to figure out what movie it is as a game, I haven't been able to get them all, but it is pretty geeky.
Dammit I've got work to do!!
Bit late aren't you ? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's April 2nd here ....
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Duuude... you live in the fuuuuuture???
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Yup! Get to see the sun up before all you rminions, you get handmedown light and air!
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Re:Bit late aren't you ? (Score:4, Informative)
And the answer is: (Score:4, Funny)
41.9999999999999387
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No, that would give you:
41.999387
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Add the numbers on a pair of dice. 21+21=42.
Life is a dice roll. Always has been. Always will be. Aw, crap.
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There is no ONE answer to the meaning of life. Let's say a computer does compute some answer X as the meaning of life. We can easily find Y, an alternative answer, that is in no way related to X, and another answer Z, that is not related to X or Y and so on. This (pseudo) proof shows that there is no ONE answer to the meaning of life.
You're fucking fired. (Score:2, Insightful)
You fucked this spoof of so ridiculously, I'm surprised you even got 42 right.
Stop. Seriously, Just fucking stop.
JUST STOP, NO ONE WANTS YOU TO POST THIS CRAP, READ THE GOD DAMN COMMENTS ON EVERY STORY POSTED TODAY.
If you're going to post this shit, you at least have to have read the book before you start making shit up.
TROLL SMASH PUNY EDITORS! (Score:2)
Oh, the stories aren't that great, chuckleworth at best, but certainly not actually funny. The entertainment factor is all the people who are absolutely losing their shit over these stories. You would think that someone just deleted the last known copy of 'Star Wars' for all the nerd rage that is going on.
Slashdot Editors, please tell me that the real April fool's joke is poking the
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You need to research the meaning of the term 'troll.'
The trolls are the posts on the front page of /. today.
The people who you refer to as 'trolls' are rough fish. Flippin' around in the bottom of the boat, no less.
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We got it... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Maturity is about knowing when to stop, and I think we've way beyond reason...
The clock is about knowing when to stop, and here where I am it's still only 10:40PM on April 1.
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Maturity is about knowing when to stop, and I think we've way beyond reason...
Anybody want a peanut?
Slashdot hates you. (Score:1)
This is proof.
Traditionally (Score:1, Troll)
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Time for more subtle April fools? (Score:5, Informative)
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They needed to post a few dumber April Fools jokes, you know.
Slashdot isn't just nerds anymore. There are IT types here, too. The kind with certs.
Filled up the page (Score:4, Insightful)
OK, now that the whole front page is non-fool gags, are we done now?
Either post some actual April-fool type stories, or go back to regular news.
Please?
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You have it backwards: It is now official: Netcraft is dying; BSD confirms it.
I made an account to stop this madness. (Score:1)
white mice? (Score:3)
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The little white mice are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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Careful. This is a US based website. Many clods won't know you're talking about 1 April. They think 1/4/15 is January 4th.
sad (Score:2)
Wow even if it was still April first this would be just plain aweful, but on April second it is just really REALLY sad
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Hear, hear. All the bitchin' about how a free website isn't doing Loof Lirpa correctly. Frankly, they're the annoying ones.
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Moan Moan, the geeks didn't entertain you today with knowledge, it's all about what geeks love and the haters have been totally had - fucking hilarious!!!!
Slashdot Alternative (Score:2)
what 42 is about? (Score:1)
Tomorrow (Score:2)
Tomorrow us Thursday, the Vogons will be here to destroy the planet.
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I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
The 42 refers to the electron/positron imbalance (Score:1)
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You've got it! The Question(tm)! Does this mean we can quit nailing people to trees and stuff?
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At the big bang. That lead to more 'normal' matter and less anti-matter, which lead to everything else. Likely the only way an imbalance could be created was another big bang, which had 42 more positrons, leading to an alternate universe, with the same starting point, so like is identical in every way.
That is a *fucking awesome* explanation!!! Bravo, Sir!
worst (Score:1)
Worst. April Fools Day. Ever.
A new record (Score:2)
42 (Score:1)
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42 Electrons over positrons (Score:1)
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. (Score:2)
Ok. Here we are HHG2TG. Great series, just too much ridiculous fun, great movie. Marvin reminds me that all the haters have a 'brain the size of a planet' and haven't worked out that the long arm of the geek turning them into a bunch of whining sock puppets. I'm laughing to think those posts can't be undone, does reddit let you do that?
Frankly the last two weeks for me have been filled with messaging systems, state based machines, programming signal processors, doing intelligence tests, psychometric tests
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The Meaning of Life can be summed up with 3 phrases:
* You have a relationship with _everything_, including yourself.
* Your primary purpose is to discovery how to "Be excellent to everything/everyone"
* Unconditional love is the highest form of this relationship
The 4 absolute laws of the universe:
* Law of Existence: Physical is Temporary, Spirit is Eternal
* Law of Hologram: All is One; One is All
* Law of Karma: You receive what you give
* Law of Absolutes: Aside from the firs 3, everything else is relative
i.e.