Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything

 Science fiction fans and especially those of Douglas Adams and the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" will know that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.  But did you know that....

... that today is 42??  Today's date is October 10, 2010, abbreviated as 10-10-10 which is binary for 42.  Therefore, if we consider one of science fiction's most famous satirical novel today is in fact the answer to life, the universe and everything!!  Now if only we knew what the answer of 42 represented....