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Scientists Discover Meaning of Life Through Massive Computing Project
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.
Not even funny. Someone please make it STOP!!!
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It's April 2nd here ....
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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.
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You, Dice's editors, all love SF, and spam /. with all the legends, but ENOUGH is fracking ENOUGH. Maturity is about knowing when to stop, and I think we've way beyond reason...
This is proof.
didn't the pranks stop at noon? Stop breaking the April Fools Rules!
I'm sorry guys - this is a little OTT, and a trillion miles away from subtle or funny. You want a proper April fools? Try the one I saw at a subreddit within Reddit: https://twitter.com/TeslaMotor...
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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?
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
Yeah, I know it's only one day, but please stop these uninteresting parodies. Thank you. I want my real slashdot news back.
What did the little white mice have to say about it? Any comments there?
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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Has been all fucking day. Enough already!!!!!!
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.
Anyone know of a slashdot alternative site? This site is getting really annoying to read, to the point I'm wondering why bother.
I am finding these stories very entertaining...
/. trolls with a stick. Because if was your goal, you just won at the Internet....
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
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
For tea too or coffee too? I prefer its about the coffee, its my goto choice of beverage.
Tomorrow us Thursday, the Vogons will be here to destroy the planet.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
You have it backwards: It is now official: Netcraft is dying; BSD confirms it.
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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.
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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His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
You've got it! The Question(tm)! Does this mean we can quit nailing people to trees and stuff?
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Worst. April Fools Day. Ever.
for embarrassingly bad 4/1 stuff.
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This is ONLY my interpretation. I have no spell check. 4 is comprised of 3 and 1. 3 stands for Universe or perfection (so perfect it seems to allow for imperfection). 1 stands for the one conscious being experiencing the Universe. 2 stands for a couple. In the Bible 40 stands for a really long period of time. And again I claim that 2 stands for a couple. My web page: Http://alamar.webege.com
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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.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
That was the number. Somehow 42 meson, masquerading as electrons (likely baryons because of their decay rate is a bit longer than bosons) unbalanced the big bang. That lead to a pollutant in the universe called 'matter'. All sorts of problems have happened since matter was created. Thankfully not much of it was created, when you consider the normal state of the universe, so call dark matter. The good news is the nature of symmetry requires another big bang happened where 42 mesons, likely created an 'anti-matter' universe. In time the two universes should overlap and reconcile the 42 baryons and bosons, leaving two universe whole once again. It's just an issue of time, which only exists because of the imbalance. Once that's undone, time will not exist and all this foolishness will be ... undone.
Can we just wait! Odd, after wait will have no meaning.
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!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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!!!!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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, reasoning tests, language tests, reading and analyzing a bill of law, speaking in public, writing to politicians to stop something dumb, on top of being eaten by mites, 36 hours without sleep, my bedroom flooding and now I am sleeping on the floor in another room. So don't mind the geek distraction.
A great opportunity for an on topic discussion about a geeky puzzle to figure out the movie/book and enjoy it. I don't mind playing, I loved this series. I am geek! I didn't read the books though - loved the BBC series. Great work on the movie.
I haven't figured out the next puzzle yet so maybe I haven't seen this one, but so far my geek credentials are pretty high. Yes people who used to play Dungeons and Dragons used to be as lame as you think this all is and just didn't care what you think, still don't. Great puzzle /. I think I'm missing 2 so far.
April fool on the haters, absolutely hilarious.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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.
Scientists haven't discovered the 2 missing forces (yet): Strong-Galactic and Weak-Galactic
Scientists are ignorant of First Contact by 2024.