The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Just a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.

[poshfather]

h2g2

[welcometoyouredoom]

[liquidnate]

One more to 42 folks!

[free-martinis]

Nasa’s Space Station Expedition 42 Poster Spoofs The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

For its 42nd mission, Nasa has produced a poster spoofing The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. In the novel by Douglas Adams, 42 is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

Nasa’s poster, based on the one used for the film starring Martin Freeman, features Terry Virts and Anton Shkaplerov as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Aleksandr Samokutyayev as Humma Kavula, Barry “Butch” Wilmore as Arthur Dent, Elena Serova as Ford Prefect, and Samantha Cristoforetti as Trillian.

Marvin the Paranoid Android is played by Robonaut – Nasa’s humanoid robotic development project.

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[blinky2k6-deactivated20211009]

All through my life I’ve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. ‘No,’ said the old man, 'that’s just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that’

Douglas Adams in Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (via blinky2k6)

[stripey-mouse]

I have this toy motorbike:

it’s got the racing number 42 which I thought was pretty cool because Hitchhiker’s, I assumend they’d picked the number at random and it wasn’t a deliberate reference, it’s a cheap toy why would they be making Douglas Adams references, but…

Answer Racing.

[confusababel]

[ready-set-go-away]

[sketch-and-doodle-deactivated20]

Since I’m on a Hitchhiker’s Guide kick, here’s Marvin the Paranoid Android!

[jr-pictures-deactivated20200725]

the answer

[oldschoolsciencefiction]

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979 (via oldschoolsciencefiction)

[noosphe-re]

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses. To explain – since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation – every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via inthenoosphere)

[snejkha]

Nepropadejte panice/

[holistic-hitchhiker]

*blows a kiss to the sky*

for Trillian Astra, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent and Marvin

[crankyteapot]

accidentally started reading hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. i love it

[stonerjelly]

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via stonerjelly)

[snejkha]

(coughs and dies)