Why is the larger size 42mm?
The answer is out there somewhere.
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.
In the pilot for the X-Files, at the very end of the episode, the next evidence box is 100042.
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“.
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.
Disneyland: Alice in Wonderland ride. Jester says “Rule 42, The Queen Always wins!!!”
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.
According to a discovery program on US military power, the original Abrams M1 A1 tank can claims in I lines of 42 degree
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.
Today 2/24/2013 the Daytona 500 starts with 42 male drivers and one woman.
A circus ring standard sieve is 42 feet in dia.
Movie – Arctic Blast – Just 42 miles from Hobart is where the first…. wait, you got to see it.
The Gutenberg Bible is also known as the “42-line Bible”, as the book contained 42 lines per page.
The glyph, or character, corresponding to the number 42 in the ASCII character set, is *, the asterisk, commonly known as thewildcard character.
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 has 42 teeth
An airbus 380 has a frequency of 42 Hz when in flight.
An Ohio class sub is, you guessed it, 42 feet wide
Only 42 states play Mega Millions lottery. As of 3/30/2012.
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…”
The number of eyes in a deck of 52 cards.
There were originally 42 columns and 42 figures from Greek myth in the Parthenon.
42 is the percentage of the London Underground that is actually underground
The number of Landlocked countries on Earth.
The post you are reading now is the 42nd posting to the blog WhereRU42. It is both a Circular and recursive reference. This post also has exactly forty two words in it and was posted at forty two minutes past the hour.
Tower 42 is a skyscraper in the City of London, formerly known as the NatWest Tower.
42 is the number of laws of cricket.
42 is the result given by the web search engines Google, Wolfram Alpha and Bing when the query “the answer to life the universe and everything”
is entered as a search. Give it a go!