If the answer is 42 what is the question?

Question: “What is the initial state of the cellular automaton that creates Life, the Universe and Everything?”

Answer: “42″ (42 = 101010 = 0101010 = oxoxoxo)

Unfortunately, this answer does not tell us anything about the rules

of the cellular automaton with the initial state oxoxoxo.

But never mind: Stephen Wolfram and Jürgen Schmidhuber are working on it;)