The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the most famous book in the universe. Ford Perfect is a field correspondent of the guide who unfortunately got abandoned in the planet earth for 15 years. Arthur Dent, his friend, was lying in front of a bulldozer that was about to destroy his house to make a bypass not knowing that Earth is going to be destroyed that day. Ford saves his life just before the destruction of earth and finds out that universe is totally different from what he thought. He gets exposed to deadly Vagon poetry, Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters and 29 seconds of vacuum before rescued by the President of the Galaxy who stole the newly invented space ship with an infinity drive. He is surprised to find out that the answer to the ultimate question “why we are here?” is 42. He gets furious when he finds out that the guides entry on earth is a single word “Harmless”, later updated by Ford after 15 year of stay to “Mostly Harmless”. .Based on a radio series in BBC, written by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The book makes fun of things like politics, bureaucracy, human behavior and racism in a universal point of view. If you want to watch the movie, do it after reading the book. The book is sold millions of copies and translated in to many languages. If you want to get hold of a book that you can read many times with same excitement, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a book that I recommend. This is how its starts.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral
arm of the Galaxy lies a small unrewarded 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. This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans. And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change,……..
According to the book this is why the earth was built
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? Many many millions of years ago a race of hyper intelligent pan dimensional beings(whose physical manifestation in their own pan dimensional universe is not dissimilar to our own) got so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life which used to interrupt their favorite pastime of Brockian Ultra Cricket (a curious game which involved suddenly hitting people for no readily apparent reason and then running away) that they decided to sit down and solve their problems once and for all.
About Intelligence
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much the wheel, New York, wars and so on whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more
intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
