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2Presumably the computer program would be robust enough to handle aliens as easily as meteors and therefore random extinctions. What it could not handle, of course, was aliens intent on creating a route through their solar system...– Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SECommented Feb 29, 2016 at 14:24
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25It was built by the Magratheans, not the Golgafrinchans. The Golgafrinchans were the ones that arrived on the B Ark and caused the original inhabitants to die out, thus making the program go wrong.– Daniel RosemanCommented Feb 29, 2016 at 14:37
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1Eek, my bad - sorry! I had to Google Golgafrinchans to spell it right, but apparently I didn't read what I copy/pasted -_-;– J.JCommented Feb 29, 2016 at 14:43
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9What if the answer was ultimately provided by an external entity rather than from the internal state of the computer? What if that was the point? What if what actually happened was always meant to happen as part of the calculation?– MooCommented Feb 29, 2016 at 14:46
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6@Moo - then the universe is infinitely much stranger than it's portrayed... oh, forgot the subject, right then, carry on.– RadhilCommented Feb 29, 2016 at 15:22
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