#douglasadams — Public Fediverse posts
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, and had a battery of laser-guided guns linked to special scanning devices in the door frame to deter anybody who was merely bringing extremely good reasons why they hadn't written any. Thus was a high level of output maintained.
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
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@captainfutura der plot ist nicht ganz neu... #douglasadams #golgafrincham
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
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It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the Presidency, a decision which had sent waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy—Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President? Many had seen it as a clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas.
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There was a terrible ghastly silence.
There was a terrible ghastly noise.
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Do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are unlikely to say anything helpful.
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There was a terrible ghastly silence.
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He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Civilization
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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@marcel Fein 😎
Ich erinnere mich auch an eine Fassung mit Otto Sander und Nina Hoger_ Anyway.
Im Internet Archive ist die synchronisierte BBC-Fassung zu finden. \via #ChronoLink https://mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=51.35031,0.21835&q=51.0733,0.39325&z=8.85&t=17&i=1/adams /
Und wenn man da auszoomt, gibt es noch viel mehr zum genialen Douglas Adams. -
🤔💡 Oh, rejoice! Douglas Adams, the #Nostradamus of tech, apparently foresaw your toaster being smarter than you and #chatbots spewing nonsense decades ago. 😒🔮 Let's all pretend this deep revelation isn't just the latest attempt to appear visionary by connecting every modern gadget to a 70s sci-fi author. 🙄📚
https://krisstgabriel.substack.com/p/dont-panic-but-douglas-adams-predicted #DouglasAdams #ofTech #SmarterToasters #SciFiVisionary #HackerNews #ngated -
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CW: art of AI origin, large cat inexplicably indoors, eye contact
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#7books to get to know me (20th century fiction only):
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharp
Perfum: The Story of a Murder - Patrick Süskind
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren#DouglasAdams #Bulgakov #JosephHeller #Kundera #TomSharp #RobertPennWarren #PatrickSuskind