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Hey bud, you want to know why 42 is the answer to life? Remind yourself that the machine that gave the answer was just that, a machine. A computer. Computers use a character called a Wildcard that is represented by the ASCII character ' * ' or the asterisk. Can you guess what ASCII Character 42 is? If you don't know, hold ALT and press 42 on your numpad, key stroke is alt+42.
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This simply means that the meaning of life is everything. We exist to live, to die, to be happy, to suffer. All of it is a part of existence.