42 and it's brothers and sisters

[Thomas G]

 “The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.” Douglas Adams
Believe it or not but the thread comes to... conclusions.

Let's have some fun and show 'em numbers - any of the obscure type present in a certain type of literature will do.

[Thomas G]

Seen on one of Color Lines cruise ferries going from Kiel to Oslo. Unfortunately I do not remember which. But the answer is

[elsa hoffmann]

sort if inverted. The wall was white-ish

[Thomas G]

Summer of 69? I remember that song well... 

[Jacques]

This is supposed to be a real time update of the world population numbers, I did not notice any reductions so I suppose more people are being born than are passing away !

[elsa hoffmann]

Jacques - interesting!
here's the stats on births and deaths (and a whole lot others in real time too)
http://www.worldometers.info/

[Thomas G]

Jaques - this is a nice one. I like it due to it's screen pixelized graphic style.
Elsa - interesting. Much more new bikes than cars.

I extend the topic an hope it'd broaden the stream of photos:

Starting with the well known numbers we post photos of any number which comes with a story, a meaning or an afterglow of personal rememberance.

[Anirban Halder]

Ground Zero, 2006.


Canon P&S S80.