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Just "Why?" Leave this magical answers being confused and questioning humanity, like the rest of us.
Just 'because'
Because 42
https://www.ascii-code.com/
In ASCII, 42 is an asterisk, which is a common computer placeholder for "whatever you want it to be". The computer in Hitchhikers wasn't just pooping out a random number, but in the most computer way possible it pretty much just said life is what you make of it.
So yea, 42.
Bro. I love this. TIL. Never thought of checking the ASCII of 42.