Why is the larger size 42mm?
The answer is out there somewhere.
Streaming video services are now used by more than 42% of American households
- (I know its not a true 42 sighting, but it is nonetheless, interesting)
The ninth edition of the Deloitte Digital Democracy Survey has revealed how the momentum of streaming is heavily changing media consumption habits across generations in the US.
Fundamentally, the data found that streaming video services are now used by more than 42% of American households and that streaming content has overtaken live programming as the viewing method of choice, with 56% of consumers now streaming films and 53% streaming television on a monthly basis. This compared with 45% of consumers preferring to watch television programmes live.
The X-Files
In the pilot for the X-Files, at the very end of the episode, the next evidence box is 100042.
42 according to Wikipidia
42 (forty-two) is the natural numberimmediately following 41 and directly preceding 43. The number has received considerable attention in popular culture as a result of its central appearance in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as the “Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything“.
NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover completes 42 km marathon milestone in 11 years
Washington: NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover has recently completed the first 42 kilometers marathon milestone on Mars in 11 years and two months, after its January 2004 landing in Eagle Crater.
John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said that this was the first time any human enterprise has exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of another world and it happens only once.
Too good not to add Here is the HHG 1982 game online
To the moon!
If a pice of paper were folded 42 times it would reach the moon.
Movie Lucy
When she changes the police radio
Disneyland. 42 on the wall
In the entrance of buz light year
Disneyland
Disneyland: Alice in Wonderland ride. Jester says “Rule 42, The Queen Always wins!!!”
Note the speed
Shining Example of 42
The number 42 appears in various guises in the movie The Shining.
- If you multiply 2 by 3 by 7 (as in room 237) the number is 42.
- Jack’s typing phrase “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, consists of 42 characters including spaces.
Danny Torrance’s shirt has a 42 on the sleeve.
The movie playing on the television is Summer of ’42.
Dick Hallorann’s rental car license plate has a prominent 42.
There are 42 vehicles in front of the Overlook at the beginning of Jack’s interview (not including the Sno-Cat).
When Jack first sees Lloyd the bartender, the barstools are arranged in a configuration of 4 and 2.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. But most importantly, he was born on February 11, 1847, exactly 42 days into the year.
Face muscles
Apple and 42 with woodchucks
M1 A1 tank
According to a discovery program on US military power, the original Abrams M1 A1 tank can claims in I lines of 42 degree
Solar generation KwH
My solar system loves to make exactly 42 KwH a day.
Woodchuck can chuck
How much wood….
Broadcast TV in Minnesota.
Note the Span Frequency on the left.
From movie “French Connection”
NCIS’ Pauley Perrette 42 Tat
NCIS’ Pau;ey Perrette has a tat of 42 in binary on her left arm.
Jackie Robinson #42
42 (2013)
The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/
Daytona 500
Today 2/24/2013 the Daytona 500 starts with 42 male drivers and one woman.
Circus ring
A circus ring standard sieve is 42 feet in dia.
Do you get it?
Movie Arctic Blast
Movie – Arctic Blast – Just 42 miles from Hobart is where the first…. wait, you got to see it.
Gutenberg Bible
The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the “42-line Bible”, as the book contained 42 lines per page.
42 in ASCI
The glyph, or character, corresponding to the number 42 in the ASCII character set, is *, the asterisk, commonly known as thewildcard character.
Antonov 124 plane
The Antonov 124 plane is the largest in the world and can hold, you guessed it, 42 average sized cars stacked from nose to tail.
Storybook land whale
Storybook land whale has 42 teeth
Airbus 380
An airbus 380 has a frequency of 42 Hz when in flight.
Finding nemo
42 was the street address of the scuba diver who took nemo
Avengers
Plane on the deck of the aircraft carrier was no 42
Ok, this one is just funny.
Submarine
An Ohio class sub is, you guessed it, 42 feet wide
Total recall
When Quaid / Hauser sits down at the piano for the first time, his ID has a big number 42 on it.
Hunger games
Gale’s name is entered 42 times in the reaping
Mega Millions
Only 42 states play Mega Millions lottery. As of 3/30/2012.
Deep Space 9
42 is the quanity of rare bracelets in espied 6 season 2 of Star Trek Deep Space 9
42-string guitar
Gallons in a Barrel of Oil
42: The Number of Gallons in a Barrel of Oil
Believe it or not, there are exactly 42 US Gallons in one barrel of oil (measured at 60 degrees F). At today’s prices, that will set you back about… an arm and a leg.
The US uses about 20M of those barrels per day. That’s a LOT of 42.
According to testimony before the Senate by David Hawkings of the Natural Resources Defense Council in April 2006:
“…our system of refining crude oil to produce gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other transportation fuels, results in a total “well to wheels” emission rate of about 27.5 pounds of CO2 per gallon of fuel…”
Buzz Lightyear
The number of Buzz Lightyear’s star cruiser in this series is 42.
Where Are U 42? 