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Asteroid Named After Douglas Adams

Posted by timothy on from the along-for-the-ride dept.

tc writes "MSNBC is reporting that an asteroid has been named after Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fame. Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. This seems like a fitting tribute to me."

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  1. Excellent by wildBoar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it is a very fitting tribute.

    Of course other things could be done, but that is not the point.

  2. Re:Fitting tribute? by kaedemichi255 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hahaha...the grandparent's attempt at a smart-ass remark sure wasn't run through the idiot-checker :)

  3. Re:SPOILER ALERT! by Saikiran · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm .. I wonder if it was intentional, but your result is precise in arithmetic modulo 13 :)

    42 base 13 = 4*13 + 2 = 54 = 9 times 6

  4. Re:Mostly harmless by StormyWeather · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does it hang there in the sky, much in the way that bricks don't?

  5. Its fitting that... by lucason · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .. the asteroid hangs there almost the same way bricks don't.