It's
Towel
Day!
Do you know where your Towel
is?
Towel Day is celebrated every
May 25 as a
tribute by fans of the late author
Douglas Adams.[1]
On this day, fans carry a
towel with them to demonstrate their love for the
books and the author. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two
weeks after Adams' death on May 11, 2001.[2] The towel is a
reference to Adams's popular
science fiction comedy series
The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an
interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across
the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant
marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea
vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so
redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft
down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in
hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious
fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
(such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't
see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies
as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it
still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has
immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag:
nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him,
he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a
toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map,
ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc.
Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of
these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally
have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can
hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it,
struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where
his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Anything on this cache page may or may not be
Mostly
Harmless.
The
42
Puzzle is a game devised by
Douglas Adams in 1994 for the
United States series of
The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy books. The puzzle is an illustration
consisting of
42
multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows.
42 Puzzle
The answers are
42.
.
.
what are the questions?
Six of the solutions are:
- How many spheres are in the diagram?
- What position in the grid does the computer that calculates the
Question to the Ultimate Answer (the Earth) occupy?
- The barcode is the number 42 as an Interleaved 2 of 5 bar
code
- Considering red-hued spheres (red, purple, orange, black) as a
'1' and those without as a '0', what number does each line
represent in decimal form?
- What number do the blue-tinted spheres (blue, green, purple,
black) spell out? (Similar to a color blindness test.)
- What number is represented by Roman numerals spelled out by the
yellow-tinted spheres (yellow, orange, green, black) in the first
three rows?
Marvin the Paranoid
Android
.
Marvin, the Paranoid Android is a
fictional
character in
The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy series by
Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's
robot aboard the
starship
Heart of
Gold. He was built as a
prototype of
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's
GPP
(Genuine People Personalities)
technology. Marvin is apparently afflicted with severe
depression
and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the
size of a planet" which he is seldom able to use. Indeed, the
true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be
given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast
intellect. Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent
than a human, (or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live
mattress) though this is, if anything, a vast underestimation.
When kidnapped by the bellicose
Krikkit
robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war
computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire
planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major
mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological,
philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological
problems of the Universe except his own, three times over," and
compose a number of lullabies. He seemed to find this last the
hardest, and only one,
How I Hate the Night", is known.
To sum it all up - Well it's a puzzle - You figure
it out
So
Long
, and Thanks for All the Fish
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.