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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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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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