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From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue Dec 11 14:11:01 2001

> >> 42 !
> > Feynman lives!
>
> Doug Adams, right?
> Or is there some link to Ofey I missed?

I found out about Richard Feynman's propensity
to yell out "42" as the answer to anything andf
everything from one of Douglas Hofstadter's books;
probably not G.E.B., but likely his duet with
Daniel Dennet, "Mind's I".

It *may*, tho, have been in "Metamagical Themas",
the compilation of his columns from SciAm.

In a very depressing time, dealing with a very, very
depressing subject, Richard Feynman provided me with
the greatest sense of glee I can recall. While George
Meany (or whomever the shirt was who was heading the
Challenger Disaster Panel) was going through the motions,
I was carefully watching an otherwise bored Feynman
start to play with the sample of rubber from the o-ring
seals. I saw him look at his glass of icewater, and
before I could form the though "stick it in the ice-
water" he was doing it, and then immediately started
to check his watch.

After a while, he raised his hand or interrupted,
can't quite recall which, and declared he knew what
had caused the disaster.

I'd give up all of Congress for one Richard Feynman.

-dq
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