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How long will the Great Lakes last?

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How long will the Great Lakes last?

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Seconds? Years? Decades? Meters? AU?

Care to give a unit?
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  It’s a joke. It’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where the answer to the ultimate question is 42. It’s designed to not make sense.
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    Yep. Which is why I said time and distance units.
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      Well woosh on me.
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  The unit is 42
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    Oh, the unit is the universe.
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      And the number too, much more efficient

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