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Submission + - Scientists discover meaning of life through massive computing project! (wikia.com)

Submitted by Rabbit327 on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:51AM

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.

Comment Re:It's a cultural thing (Score 3, Informative) 736

by ladhami on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:36PM (#30598338) Attached to: Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees

Spelling it with a "Mu" gives it an Egyptian connotation, other spelling would be more like "Mhandis" or Mouhandis" or "Mohandis". Arabic is my mother tongue. I am not trying to undermine your knowledge of Arabic culture, 16 years is a long time. However, as an Arab engineer who has lived for more than 20 years in different Arab countries (and kept contact later when in Europe and the US), I think you are making too much of it. Maybe your sample population is specific...

Comment Re:It's a cultural thing (Score 2, Informative) 736

by ladhami on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @12:38PM (#30595280) Attached to: Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees

You are generalizing: "Ana Muhandis" is spoken Egyptian. Egypt is a very large country with a low percentage of college degrees, combined with the fact fact that Egypt is has very large agricultural and industrial sectors, gives you that weird claim. In other Arab countries, being an engineer is just like being an engineer in the US or Europe. Anyway, this is *not* the case anymore, engineers are not envied at all in Egypt (compared to business people or medical doctors). And honestly, how would you know that they claim to be engineers just by being in an immersion program?

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