The fictitious universe of Douglas Adams's Guide Hitchhiker to the Galaxy is a society that includes galaxies interacting with extraterrestrial cultures. The technological level in this series is very advanced, though often unreliable. Many of the technologies in this series are used to make fun of modern life.
Video Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Most of the technologies mentioned in this series are products from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation , a highly incompetent company that designs and manufactures various robots and devices that save labor, such as elevators, automatic doors, system ventilation, and The famous Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser. In the novel
It is easy to be blinded by the underlying disuse of [their products] by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all. In other words - and this is a solid principle in which the entire Galaxy-wide company's success - their underlying design weakness is completely hidden by the weakness of their superficial design.
The only profitable division of the company, the Complaint Division, took all the mainland in the first three planets in the Sirius Tau system. The theme song for the Complaint division, "Share and Enjoy", seems to be the theme for the company as a whole. The main office building and headquarters for the company was originally built to represent this motto, but because of its poor architecture it sank halfway to the ground, leaving the top of the words motto to read (in the local language) "Go, Chief Pig."
Cybernetics Company Sirius invented a concept called Personality of Orang Asli (GPP). GPPs inspire their products with intelligence and emotion. So not only do doors open and close, but they thank their users for using them, or complain with well-done job satisfaction. Other examples of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's notes with live technology include neurotic elevator fleets, hyperactive ship computers, and (perhaps the most famous of all) Marvin Paranoid Android. Marvin is a prototype for the GPP feature, and his depression and "tremendous pain in all the diodes on his left side" stem from the unresolved flaws in his programming.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of Soul series mention the Corporations, which also appeared in instructions for the Atari Jaguar game Alien vs. Predator as a manufacturer of medical equipment.
Product Designer's Homepage
In Young Zaphod's backstory Young Zaphod Plays it Safe Sirius Cybernetics Corporation designs and manufactures synthetic personalities to order, but they turn out to be "Products of Designers - a characteristic amalgam that can only not live side by side in the form of life that happens naturally ". Some are dangerous because they do not warn people of their dangers. The Billion Year Bunker spacecraft contains these three objects in the hold, on their way to be blown up from the universe - but one has fled to Earth, "the man is gently babbling about a city shining on a hill" ; the revised edition clarified the reference by describing the figure as "Reagan" (in other words, Ronald Reagan).
Doors
The doors produced by Sirius Cybernetics Corporation are programmed to love their simple life; they dislike nothing but opening and closing for passers-by, and thanked them profusely for asserting their existence firmly. Most of the characters in the series grew to hate the door, especially Marvin (who first explains the doors of "" cheerful and bright dispositions ").
Congratulations People Vertical Transporter
The elevator at the Hitchhiker's Guide office is called the Happy Vertical Entrepreneur . As designed by the Corporation, they are meant to be lively (enough to argue with) and have a "defocused temporal perception". The latter concept is intended to allow lifts to look far enough into the future to arrive on the floor before potential passengers realize they want a ride, thus saving them from having to wait and make friends as they should normally do.
One elevator with sound appeared in Fit the Seventh of the radio series, voiced by David Tate. The elevator made a cameo appearance in The Quintessential Phase's radio series and in the Starship Titanic computer game.
Transference disruption matrix
Matter-transference beams feature as the primary means of teleportation encountered throughout the series - first used by Dentrassi to transport Ford and Arthur to Vogon ships seconds before the Earth is destroyed. Ford explains that a person may lose salt and protein when transported for the first time through a transference beam. In the game Hitchhiker , this condition is fatal without eating nuts. Used again at the Restaurant at Ujung Alam Semesta : when the team tried to escape from the Desiato Hotblack action, they found a room, about 6-8 meters, with what resembled a double shower unit with a crumpled semi-finished cable from the ceiling. Since there was no programming and no automated system, Marvin had to stay and operate the machine (he himself escaped by artificially introduced Field Improbability). Arthur wakes up from transportation and declares he has the worst headaches imaginable. Arthur described the experience as "Not as exciting as a good and strong kick on the head". Like most Corporation products, they are known to be damaged. A popular protest song about Matter Transference Beams summarizes it by saying, "I teleported to the house last night with Ron and Sid and Meg; Ron stole Meggie's heart when I got Sidney's leg." Nutratic Drink Dispenser
The Nutritional Beverage Dispenser is a product of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. The Guide has this to say on the Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser:
When the 'Drink' button is pressed, it creates an instant but very detailed examination of the taste of the subject, spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism, and then sends a small experimental signal to the neural pathway to the subject's sense center to see what might be well received.
However, no one knows why this happens because it always gives a full cup of fluid that is almost, but not completely, totally unlike tea.
In Fit the Ninth of the radio series, the machine fails to produce tea at all, in fact refusing to try, and tapping on Eddie's logic sequence to calculate why Arthur wanted tea at all; "Because I happen to like it" is not counted. With the help of Zaphod Beeblebrox Fourth spirit, Eddie finally replied "because he is a stupid monkey who does not know better", although this answer is not well received by Arthur.
In the Ujung Alam Semesta novel, on the other hand, Arthur Dent succeeds in freezing the Nutrition Drink Dispenser (along with the rest of their spaceship) by asking him to make him a cup of tea, because of the diverse portions of terrible mud he received from the machine during the trip. The Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser defines tea as "The taste of dried leaves boiled in water". After hours of thinking about many things with Eddie's help, he managed to produce real tea, which Arthur described as "the best tea he had ever drunk."
In film adaptation, a machine similar to a beverage dispenser appears, presenting a chocolate sludge into a plastic cocktail glass. However, it was not named, nor did it involve Arthur in the conversation. There are also similar machines nearby that detect and produce - according to Trillian - "what do you want". Although still incapable of making tea, this machine actually did not paralyze the ship's system - it was attained by riding riders who, in fact, are pan-dimensional beings who activate Deep Thinking for the second time.
Maps Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ship
Billion Bunker Year
The Starship Bunker Billion Year appears in Young Zaphod Plays It Safe . It was commissioned by the Galactic government to bring certain "byproducts", such as aorist rods and biological weapons. It was meant to be virtually indestructible and cargo loads have been reinforced in various ways. The crew had to steer the ship into a black hole, where it would be sucked and forever destroyed. However, the captain took a detour to his home planet because he wanted some abundant lobsters on the planet. The ship fell into the water and split in two.
Blagulon Kappa policecraft
In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, this spacecraft was found on the surface of Magrathea, parked next to the Heart of Gold. It is described as "a round affair, like a shark, a green-slate color, with stencil writing in varying degrees of size and ignorance informing anyone who cares to read it where the ship originated, which part of the policeman was assigned to, and where the power feed must be connected. "It's also really dark and lonely, as if dead.
Police Blagulon Kappa arrived to try to capture Zaphod. However, Marvin, who is "bored and depressed," connects to the computer and "talks at length, reveals his entire view of the universe," where "It [commits suicide"], luckily picks up two Blagulon Kappan pilots with it, because they need their ship's computer to run their personal life support system.
End Business
In the novel And Another Thing... , this is the Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz ship.
Golgafrincham B-Ark
Golgafrincham B-Ark is two miles long and is bordered by a bridge that offers panoramic views of the stars. Its interior corridors are covered by a brown Hessian-woven wall, and home to the undesirable fifteen million "invaders" in cryonic suspension. The ship was built as part of an elaborate con- duct to alienate a third of the inhabitants of Golgafrincham unnoticed; assured them that their planet was destroyed, the majority sent them to another planet, which happened to be Earth. After completing his five-year journey, the ship fell into the swamp, taking most of its sleeping passengers with a swamp.
Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is the first prototype ship to successfully use revolutionary Infinite Improbability Drive. The length is 150 meters and has been represented in various forms. The original radio series did not specify the form. In a novel adapted from the first four episodes of the radio series, it was described as a seamless white running shoe, which TV adaptation was adopted as the basis for its portrayal. In the 2005 film, he was more rounded with red holes and brake lights on the back that formed the shape of the heart, a form that comes from a tea cup in a brown motion producer that drives Drive Unlimited Infinity. It also has a mural around the hole that describes the discovery of Drive. Built as a government secret project on the Damogran planet from Zaphod Beeblebrox, who was then President of the Imperial Galactic Government, stole it at the launch ceremony.
Cybernetics ships consist of new generation Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers with Native Person Personality (including Eddie ship computer and Marvin).
In the novel of Life, Universe and Everything, it is revealed that the essence of Improbability Drive is actually the Golden Bail of Prosperity, one of five items that make up the Wikkit Gate. The drive was later stolen by the Krikkit robot, but was later discovered by Zaphod Beeblebrox and reinstalled.
Starship Bistromath
Ship Slartibartfast in the novel Life, Universe and Everything . The ship is said to work by abusing the laws of 'bistromathics', which is a value-specific mathematical factor in restaurants, such as bills, the number of people present, the number of people said to attend, the number of people who go and their time all arrives. In the novel of Life, Universe and Everything, bistromathics explained that "Just as Einstein observes that space is not absolute, but it depends on the observer's movement in space [...], so it is now realized that the numbers, that figure is not absolute, but it depends on the observer movement in the restaurant. "
The ship's appearance is described as having some features of the spacecraft (guide fins, rocket nozzles, loose release, etc.), but much stronger resembling "a small overturned Italian bistro."
Starship Titanic
The luxurious and magnificent yacht was launched from the asteroid complex of the Artifactovol shipyard. The designers include an early form of Infinite Improbability Drive, which says that it would be far more undeniable that anything bad would happen to him. Unfortunately, the nature of Infinite Improbability Drive means that anything that can not be repaired now will surely happen, so the ship experiences Total Failure of Total before leaving the dock.
Vogon Constructor flagship
The Vogon Jeltz Prostetnik ship used to destroy the Earth. It is depicted in the novel as yellow, "large as an office block", and "not so much designed as frozen". The interior is dark and dirty.
Drive
Bistromathic drive
Bistromathic Drive is the space shuttle propulsion system introduced in the novel Life, Universe and Everything , the third book of the series.
The Bistromathic Drive is used in Slartibartfast Bistromath crafts and works by exploiting the irrational mathematics that applies to numbers on waitress billboards and groups of people in the restaurant. novel Life, the Universe and Everything describes bistromathics as follows:
Bistromathics itself is just a revolutionary new way to understand the behavior of numbers. Just as Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity observes that space is not absolute but depends on observer movements in space, and time is not absolute, but it depends on observer movements in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute. , but it depends on the observer movement in the restaurant.
Further explanation of the theory behind bistromathics:
The first nonabsolute number is the number of people reserving the table. This will vary during the first three phone calls to the restaurant, and then it has nothing to do with the number of people actually showing up, or the number of people who later join them after the event/match/party/show, or to the number of people who leave when they see who has appeared.
The second nonabsolute number is the time of arrival given, now known as one of the weirdest mathematical concepts, recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as something other than itself. In other words, the time of arrival given is a moment of time where it is unlikely that any party member will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play an important part in many branches of mathematics, including statistics and accounting, and also form the basic equations used to engineer the field of the Problems of Others.
The third and most mysterious part of legitimacy all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people on the table and what each of them is prepared to pay for. (The number of people who actually carry money is just a sub-phenomenon in this field.)
The bridge instrument of the Starship Bistromath is taking refuge in a fake wine bottle.
The central computing area is a fake Italian restaurant table with seating for twelve wrapped in a glass cage. The table is emblazoned with a faded red and white tablecloth with mathematically positioned burns. A group of robot customers sat around the table, attended by robot maids.
Math plays themselves in the intricate interactions between the constantly circulating keys, menus, watches, checkbooks, credit cards, bills and billboards on paper napkins.
Slartibartfast explained that "On the billboard of a waitress, the numbers dance.The reality and unreality collide at the fundamental level that each becomes another and everything is possible."
If the ship's captain sits on the table, his mathematical functions will increase; customers become more vigorous and waved to each other. Finally, equality of balance, and customer becomes polite and civil once again. The hotter the argument, the more complicated the equation, and the farther the ship can travel.
Effectively, the ship takes advantage of the strange rule that only the restaurant operates below by transforming itself into a controlled artificial restaurant. This allows ships equipped with bistromathic drives to achieve considerable performance beyond the normal capabilities of spacecraft, such as traveling two-thirds across galaxy discs in seconds. These drives are mainly more controllable than Unlimited Drive Unrestricted. It is also said to "make Heart of Gold look like an electric train."
Hyperspace
Vogon ships use hyperspace travel to move faster than light. They also destroyed the Earth to create hyperspace shortcuts. Ford Prefect describes going to hyperspace as "rather unpleasant as being drunk". When asked what was so unpleasant because drunk, he replied, "You ask for a glass of water."
Unlimited Drive Unrestricted
Unlimited Unlimited Drive is a faster drive of light. The most prominent use of the drive is in the Starship Heart of Gold . This is based on a certain perception of quantum theory: subatomic particles are most likely to be in a particular place, such as near the atomic nucleus, but there is also a very small probability that is found very far from its core. origin (eg close to a distant star). Thus, the body can travel from one place to another without passing through the intervening space (or hyperspace, for that matter), if you have sufficient probability control. According to the Guide, drives "go through every possible point in every possible universe almost simultaneously;" in other words whoever uses it is "never sure where they will end up or even what species they will get when they get there" and "therefore it is important to dress accordingly". In the 2005 film, for example, the first time Improbability Drive was used, the entire ship ended up as a giant ball of thread for a few seconds, and the main character was rendered as an animated thread puppet.
The Guide entry on the drive also states that it was created "following the research into the limited inability, which is often used to break ice at parties by making all the molecules in the ladies' clothing jump one foot simultaneously to the left, according to the theory of uncertainty". It further explained that many honorable physicists would not stand for such a thing, "partly because it is a decline in science, but mostly because they are not invited to such a party."
The Heart of Gold is a ship's prototype for unlimited travel impossible. This is the Infinite Improbability Drive at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that saved Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from possible deaths from asphyxia in space after being removed from Vogon's vessel; an impossible possibility to save is 2 276709 for one; the supposedly superscripted number becomes Islington's flat phone number where Arthur goes to a costume party and first meets - and actually does it - Trillian (in the movie, the superscript number is "2079460347" instead). Incidentally, Adams explains in an annotated volume from the original radio script that it was the removal of Arthur and Ford out of the Vogon spacecraft leading to his own "discovery" of the Infinite Improbability Drive. Adams realized that he had finished the story to death, thinking with frustration that the only solution would be "unlimited impossibility." In an instant of insight and what Adams called "mental jiujitsu", Infinite Improbability Drive was born.
In the third book, Infinite Improbability Drive was found as the Golden Bail of Prosperity at Wikkit Gate. It was stolen by a white Krikkit robot; However, it is returned and Heart of Gold returns to operational status.
Adams developed the idea of ​​impulse impossibility of having a larger causal (and narrative) effect in later books. For example, when Zaphod's great-grandfather discusses his great grandson's career, he explains that Zaphod can not escape his destiny now, because of the impossibility of "controlling you."
Karey Kirkpatrick, who with Adams adapted a screen for novel in 2005, described the drive of incompetence as a "plot-making machine", allowing Adams to build complicated plotlines based on coincidence that would, in other narratives, be considered too unlikely to be believed..
Kangaroo Relay Channel Phargilor
The Phargilor (or Penargilon) Relocation of Kangaroo Reload appears on Fit Sixth of the radio series - it can also be heard on BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects. The drive allows, in an emergency, the ship to be dispatched unexpectedly through the space time structure and comes to rest away from the starting point, with the pilot rarely having time to plan where the ship will end. Ford and Arthur use this drive to escape from the Haggunenons.
Drive Photon
Photon Drive or Conventional Photon Drive is the standard drive that Heart of Gold uses when Infinite Improbability Drive is not used. This was briefly discussed in the first book after an episode of Infinite Improbability Drive, where he stated that "The Heart of Gold escapes quietly through night space, now on a conventional photon drive". Little is known about the Foton Drive, as it is only mentioned four times during the entire series, once in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, twice in The Restaurant's The End of the Universe novel <Â € , and once in the novel Mostly Not Harmful .
Weapon
Kill-o-Zap blaster gun
The Kill-o-Zap is the first weapon to appear in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, used by police from Blagulon Kappa when they come to Magrathea to capture Zaphod. These are referenced throughout the series in standard and broad raygun brand roles.
Dalam novel The Restaurant at End of the Universe dijelaskan lebih terinci:
The designer of the weapon was clearly not ordered to hit about the bushes. "Make it evil," he said. 'Make sure that this weapon has the right end and the wrong end. Make it very clear to anyone who stands on the wrong end that things go bad for them. If that means sticking any type of nails and forks and blackened bits on it then be it. This is not a gun to hang on a fireplace or stick on an umbrella stand, it is a weapon to go out and make people miserable. '
In the novel Life, Universe and Everything, the group armed with Kill-o-Zap weapons against the Krikkiters. Arthur "gestured to release the security arrest and involve the extreme danger catch as Ford showed him. He was so trembling so that if he shot anyone at that moment, he would probably burn his signature to them."
In the 2005 film adaptation, the gun has a sophisticated look. It's more of a white ball that covers the hand and has a trigger on the inside. This version is used by Marvin.
Pistol Viewpoint
Point of View Gun is a device created by Douglas Adams for the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ; it does not appear in any of the earlier versions of the story.
According to the film, the gun was invented by Deep Thought before long contemplating the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When used on someone, it will cause them to see things from a firer's point of view (The guide says that it's "convenient, just like the name suggests"). According to Guidance notes in it, even though the gun was designed by Deep Thought, it was commissioned by the Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives, who tired of ending each argument with their husband with the phrase: "You just do not understand, Are you?"
It neatly reflects the Total Perspective Vortex, the previous plot device of the radio series and the second novel, created by Trin Tragula's character to show his wife the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
Humma Kavula wants to get a weapon to expand the influence of the religion he leads. He agreed to exchange it with Zaphod Beeblebrox for coordinates to Magrathea, but took over the second head of Zaphod instead, since Zaphod had no pistol at the time. When the pistol was found in Deep Thought, it was used by Ford Prefect and Zaphod with each other, and was eventually taken by Trillian who, wanting Zaphod's answer about how annoyed she was for the destruction of Earth, used it to interrogate her until she did. (In the film adaptation, Zaphod endorsed the destruction of Earth, thinking he was only asked for his signature for fans, and was completely unaware of why Trillian was mad at him when he found this in Vogsphere). After this, Zaphod threatened to fire a weapon into Trillian, who heatly replied that he was "already a woman" (implying that the rifle only works on men, especially since it is assigned exclusively by housewives, but also because the women are sympathetic and thinking of others, and therefore being able to see things from the other person's point of view).
Toward the end of the film, Marvin Paranoid Android uses a pistol to save the crew from the Heart of Gold from hundreds of Vogon. After Vogon saw something from a point of view that was chronically suppressed by Marvin, they all collapsed, no longer finding a point to live.
There are seven holsters for Point of View Guns in Deep Thought, but only one real weapon. The rest of the sheath is empty. At the end of the film Arthur Dent has a gun, and Zaphod has not handed a gun to Humma Kavula.
QUEST
Subversion of Experimental Enough Dissatisfied Torpedo, experimental anti-god missile used by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz to attack Thor gods in novels And Other Things... . Vogons purchased the device from Zaphod, which revealed that he installed a lawnmower on it in a scheme to deceive them.
Bomb Supernova
Featured in Life, Universe and Everything, the supernova bomb is a very tiny "bomb" that resembles a cricket ball, and is the largest weapon of mass destruction ever made in the history of the universe. Originally designed by Hactar supercomputer for Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax, which has demanded that it creates "Ultimate Weapon" but forgot that computers take instructions literally, the bomb creates a path through a hyperspace that connects all the major suns together into one gigantic supernova, effectively destroying the entire universe. Hactar deliberately designed bombs with defects that made them useless; when Silastic Armourfiends discovered this, they smashed the computer into dust and then destroyed themselves through constant warfare.
Hactar particles wrap themselves around beautiful planets, Krikkit, isolate from the rest of the universe, and gradually reengineer its people until they can create bombs and fulfill the Hactar program. The Krikkiters were defeated in the Krikkit War, the racial memories that will lead to the discovery of the cricket game on Earth. Billions of years later, they built the Hactar defect bomb and tried to spread it, which caused them to discover the influence of computers on their evolution. Trillian notes that it's impossible for Krikkit to be smart enough to build this weapon himself, but it's stupid not to understand that it will destroy them if they use it. Hactar created a fully functional duplicate of the bomb and hid it in Arthur Dent's travel bag, which almost made it explode before stopping it by chance at the last second.
Personal items
Crisis Inducer
Devices such as watches that can create artificial crisis situations of selected severity, to sharpen user intelligence. Brought by Lintilla in the Eleventh Fit of the radio series.
Digital watch
The Earth population is depicted in the first novel as "so unbelievably primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." When Arthur Dent lost his left arm as a consequence of Infinite Improbability Drive, he panicked when he realized he could no longer operate his digital clock. The pan-dimensional beings that are hipergelijen build the Deep Thought supercomputer to understand why people spend so much of their lives using digital watches. In the 1970s, when the series was first composed, digital watches were high from techno-fashion. For the 2005 movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a reference to the digital clock was replaced by a cell phone.
Joo Janta 200 Sensor Peril Sensor Super-Chromatic Glasses
Designed to help users develop a casual attitude toward danger. Lens turn completely black on the first sign of the problem, thus preventing the wearer from seeing something that might make him scared. Appears in episode 3 of the TV series and in chapters 5 and 6 of the novel The Restaurant at End of the Universe .
Thinking Cap
Special helmet used by Zaphod Beeblebrox in film adaptation. It may be an ancient device, as stated by Ford Prefect used when the ship's captain needs to concentrate. Basically this is a helmet with a trigger tool on the top that resembles an orange juicer automatically, which is therefore powered by ordinary lemon juice. The effect of the thought cap, in the case of Zaphod, lasts about 10 minutes per lemon. At Magrathea, Arthur Dent negatively commented on Ford's confidence in Zaphod's ability to make guesses by replying angrily, "Going with the premonition of a man whose brain is triggered by LEMONS !?" After Ford started Thinking Cap, Zaphod (who was very nervous because his second head was removed by force) could immediately walk straight and think more intelligently than usual, and ten minutes later he was still able to walk, but back to normal, over-the-top self.
Towel
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states that towels are the most important item a hitchhiker can have. It also mentions that "knowing where a towel person" means to control his own life. It describes a towel as a multipurpose tool that can be turned into things like sailing for emergency rafts, gas masks, blinders and weapons for hand-to-hand combat. Skilled passengers have upgraded their towels in very exotic ways, including embedding complicated circuits; Roosta, whose Prefect Ford says "really knows where the towel" is, fortifies the towel with high-protein yellow stripes, green stripes with vitamin supplements, pink flakes of wheatgerm extract, and other areas containing barbecue sauce and anti- depressants. Ford Prefect, a traditionalist, has so far only strengthened his towel layer, allowing him to use it as a rope to stop him from falling to his death. In the TV series, towels move on their own accord during a hyperspatial leap, and the amount they move allows an experienced hitchhiker to calculate the distance he or she travels. The towel is useful in the film version several times, especially by Ford. For example, while on Vogon's homeworld, he begins to wave it in front of a group of Vogon, who scream and run away. He also uses it when trying to cross a beach full of creatures like a shovel that feeds on thinking. At other times, he uses it to pull a pipe from a Vogon ship, trying to increase the range of his ring.
The emphasis on the towel was a reference to Ken Walsh's "Hitch-hiker Guide to Europe", which inspired Adams's fiction manual and also emphasized the importance of towels.
When Tesla Roadster Elon Musk was launched into space on the inaugural Falcon Heavy's rocket flight in February 2018, he brought a towel between the other items.
Other technologies
Breathe-o-Smart
Breathe-o-Smart is the "sexier and smarter" air conditioning technology in development ( Mostly Harmless ) that triggers Great Ventilation and Telephone Riots (from Srtt 3454).
One of the smartest features of Breathe-o-Smart is that it can not be wrong. So. Do not worry about that score. Enjoy your breath now, and have a great day.
Horror erupts when three simultaneous events occur: Breathe-o-Smart Inc issues a statement "best results achieved using their system in temperate regions", breaking the Breathe-o-Smart system on a very hot day and humidity, which puts hundreds of office staff into the streets where a horde of furious long-distance telephone operators have been twisted by the repetition of their work that eventually they take to the streets with megaphones - and rifles.
In the days of the riots, every window was destroyed, to the sound of screams, "Get off the line, shit!" and various animal sounds.
So now, all (mechanical or electrical or quantum mechanics or hydraulics or even wind, steam or piston-driven) devices are now legally required to carry this text:
The main difference between things that might go wrong and something that can not be wrong is that when things can not go wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get or fix.
Sub-Etha
Sub-Etha is an interstellar telecommunication network that is faster than the light used by hitchhikers to mark the spaceship passing by. The main hitcher tool is known as Electronic Thumb , a short black stem that can be used to contact passing boats and ask to be allowed in. Ford also carries Sens-O-Matic, a tool to monitor Sub-Etha ship signals, and learn from it that Vogon is on its way to destroy Earth. Sub-Etha is used throughout the Milky Way for any kind of data transmission, such as listening to news or updating the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy itself. Its name is a reference to the ether, which was once believed to be the medium that fills the universe.
Total Vortex Perspective
Total Perspective Vortex is thought to be the most terrible torture device that a living being can inflict.
When you are incorporated into the Vortex, you are given only a moment's glimpse of all unimagined creation, and somewhere inside there is a small, microscopic point at the microscopic point, which says, "You are here."
Located at Frogstar World B, this machine was originally created by Trin Tragula to harass his wife. Since he always scolds him for not having a proportional feeling, he decides to create something that will show him what it means to have a truly meaningful proportion. Unfortunately the shock of being placed in the Vortex destroys his brain, but Trin Tragula's grief is angry at knowing that he's right and he's been wrong. In Adams's words, the Total Vortex Perspective illustrates that "In an infinite universe, one thing that life can not afford is a sense of proportion." Gargravarr, mind without body, is the guard of Total Vortex Perspective.
The machine generates a virtual reality model of the entire universe by means of the axiom that every part of matter is influenced by all other materials. Vortex reconstructs the universe through the processing of high-resolution computer scanning ("extrapolation material analysis") from a piece of fairy cake. In the words of the Hitchhiker Guide ,
... since every part of matter in the universe is influenced by every part of matter in the universe, in theory it is possible to extrapolate all creation-every galaxy, every sun, every planet, its orbit, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say , a small piece of fairy cake.
Only Zaphod Beeblebrox reportedly survived the Vortex unscathed (and then ate a small piece of fairy cake). When it shows him the "You Are Here" marker, Zaphod correctly interprets the Vortex as simply telling him that he is the most important creature in the universe. This is due to the fact that it enters the Vortex in the artificial nature, which has been created specifically for its benefit (thus making it the most important in it) by Zarniwoop. After emerging from the man-made Total Perspective Vortex universe, Zaphod eats a piece of fairy cake, saying "If I tell you how much I need this, I will not have time to eat it."
In the Quintessential Phase radio series, the ideas behind the Total Perspective Vortex and Mark II Guide are used to combine the storyline of all radio episodes. This allows many storylines from different story versions to be wrapped up by the conclusions of the radio series.
Total Perspective Vortex is referenced as the name of the achievement for the 2016 No Man's Sky video game, which uses procedural generations to deterministically produce a virtual universe containing 18 quintillion (1.8 x 10 19 ) planets.
In real life, astronauts and cosmonauts experience a version of this phenomenon while in orbit and after their space experience known as the Highlights Effect.
Wikkit Gate
Wikkit Gate is an artefact featured in the novel Life, the Universe and Everything .
The Wikkit Gate is a universal symbol among the various Galaxy cultures about the basic ideals of civilization. Therefore, the Galactic Government chose to model keys that can open the Slo-Time envelope around the planet Krikkit after a Wikkit gate. The gate was destroyed, then various parts re-animated as different objects around the universe. It consists of:
- Steel Pillar Strength and Power (Marvin's Feet, but only after being replaced by an old iron trader)
- Natural Wooden Pillar and Spirituality (re-shaped ash from burning cricket stub in Melbourne, Australia to signify "the death of English cicadas")
- The Pillars of Science and Reason of Perspex (Plexiglas) (Argabuthon Justice Staff, renames the US Plastic Pillar in the US version of the books)
- Golden Bail of Prosperity (Golden Heart Golden Heart - Unconstrained Encouragement that moves star ship)
- A Silver Bail of Peace (The Rory Award For The Most Serious Use of Words "Fuck" In Serious Scenario, changed to "Belgium" in the US version)
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