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- A
- B
- Benji mouse (h2g2:197) :
mouse 1 (see, another, fake a question)
- Betelgeuse (h2g2:10)
- Babel fish (h2g2:58) : small, yellow and leechlike and
probably the oddest thing in the Universe. When the fish
is just plugged into someone's brain then the fish
absorbs all the unconscious mental
frequencies. A brainwave matrix corrector.
(see babel fish
service of Altavista)
- Brownian Motion
producer (h2g2:86) : an atomic vector plotter (=a
nice hot cup of tea)
- Brockian Ultra Cricket (h2g2:166)
- C
- D
- Damogran : Far away on the
opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand
light-years from the star Sol. (h2g2:36)
- DON'T PANIC (h2g2:26)
- Dentrassis (h2g2:47) : an unruly tribe of
gourmands. Always he/she/else is a good cooker.
- Deep Thought (h2g2:167) :
the second greatest super computer in the Universe of
Space and Time. see Milliard Gargantubrain
(Deep thought call it as a mere abacus --- mention it not),
Googleplex StarThinker
(Deep thought call it as a pocket calculation stuff.)
Deep Blue : an IBM computer which wins to the human
chess champion, Kasparov and this machine is the next
generation of IBM Deep Thought. IBM's Hitchhiker's guide to the Parallel Programming Environment
- Dordellis wars (h2g2:188)
- E
- Easter Island : an island of Damogran, there is a space
port to the Heart of Gold
island. (h2g2:37)
- Eddie (h2g2:127) : the computer of the Heart of Gold: see Eddie's talk
- the Earth (h2g2:184) : A super
computer. This was too large that it was frequently
mistaken for a planet --- especially by the strange
apelike beings who roamed its surface, totally unaware
that they were simply part of a gigantic computer program.
- F
- G
- H
- Hamlet (h2g2:85) : a script written by infinite number of
monkeys with randomly typing
- Heart of Gold (h2g2:36) :
A space ship powered by Improbability drive
which is build at Damogran
- Hooloovoo (h2g2:39) : a superintelligent shade of the
color blue.
- Horsehead Nebula
(h2g2:113) : the only place in the
Galaxy you'd see a dark screen if you were in inside.
- h2g2: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(h2g2:52) : (please read the book)
- Harmless (h2g2:62) : the whole description in the h2g2
about a small planet called Earth by native people.
Next version of h2g2, this part will be revised to
``Mostly Harmless''.
- I
- J
- Janx Sprit : like a liquor stuff of Orion beta. (h2g2:14)
- K
- Kill-O-Zap (h2g2:205) : a kind
of energy bolt from a gun.
- L
- ``Last orders, please'' (h2g2:31) : The barman's
promoting voice of the true last order on the earth.
- Lunkwill and Fook
(h2g2:167) : design architects of the Deep Thought
(in Magrathean, their name is something like LOONQUAWL
and PHOUCHG (h2g2:178))
- M
- Magrathea (h2g2:115) : a planet
name, see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page
634784, section 5a, Entry : Magrathea. This planet has
been dead for just some five million years.
The motto is ``Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater
for you. We are not proud.'' You can order 500 naked
women to Magrathea if you have much money.
- Majikthise (h2g2:170) : an older
philosopher of Cruxwan
University. One of representatives of the Amalgamated Union of
Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking
Persons. see Vroomfondel
- Marvin (h2g2:91) : a manucally
depressed robot by Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation with GPP feature.
He hates all kind automatic door and talking about life
and everything including himself because he has GPP feature.
A little good thing is that he can switch off himself.
- Megabrantis cluster (h2g2:46) : the political hub of the
Galaxy.
- Milliard
Gargantubrain at Maximegalon (h2g2:168) : a super computer
that can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond.
- white mouse (h2g2:197) :
Trillian's mice. Very clever. See Benji, Frankie
- N
- O
- Oolon Colluphid (h2g2:59) : the author of the book ``Well
that about Wraps It Up for God''.
- P
- Paralyso-Matic bomb (h2g2:44)
- Please do not press this button again. (h2g2:94)
- Poghril (h2g2:79) : in the Pansel system
- Prosser (Mr. L. --) : only a carbon-based bipedal life
form (as it called human being) ; worked for the local
council.
- Prostetnic Vogon Jelts (the Galactic Hyperspace Planning
Council) (h2g2:34)
- R
- Rahm (h2g2:119) : see Soulianis and Rahm
- Rickmansworth : a girl in a small cafe in Rickmansworth
find a way to the world could be a good and happy place.
(h2g2: p.2)
- Resistance is useless. (h2g2: 68) : Words of a Vogon guard.
- S
- SESOM: Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic (h2g2:25)
- Sens-O-Tape (h2g2:175) : recording tape of 3
dimensional space with subtitle.
- Slartibartfast (h2g2:155) :
an old Magrathean. The designer of fjords of Norway.
He got an Award for designing Norway.
- ``Star-Spangled Banner'' (h2g2:156) : The
misinterpretation of Earthans of dolphin's warning
message. The right interpretation is ``So long and
thanks for all the fish.'' The dolphins knew the Vogons are coming and warning to
human being, and then eventually gave up with this
words.
- Soulianis and Rahm
(h2g2:119) : the suns of the planet Magrathea.
- Sub-Etha News-Matics (h2g2:44)
- spider : a government spider which sidled up someone and
prints speech manuscripts on his/her hand. (h2g2:42)
- Sqornshellous Zeta (h2g2:51)
- Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation : defines a robot as ``Your Plastic Pal
Who's Fun to Be With.'', see Marvin
- Quoting from the h2g2 : ``a
bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first
against the wall when the revolution comes. ''
- Quoting from the Encyclopedia Galactica : ``a
bunch of mindless jerks who were the first
against the wall when the revolution came.''
- T
- towel (h2g2:26) : ``You got a towel with you?'' (h2g2:28)
- tri-D camera : A small robot camera. That can hover
in the air. (h2g2:40)
- Trillian : A Zaphod's
girl. (h2g2:42)
- Tricky (h2g2:170) : the first answer for the Ultimate question
of Deep Thought.
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- misc
- 1/2^276797 (h2g2: 77) : the chances of getting picked up
by another ship within 30 seconds in the Universe.
(30 seconds : The period if you hold a lungful of air
you can survive in the total vacuum of space.)
- two to the power of Infinity minus one (an irrational
number that only has a conventional meaning in
Improbability
Physics.)
- 42 (h2g2:181) : (read the book)
- 597 billion (h2g2:150) : the number of sheeps which Marvin needs to count for his
sleep.
- 7500000 years (h2g2:173) : the elapsed time to calculate
to find the Ultimate
question by Deep Thought.
- 10000000 years (h2g2:184) : the
elapsed time to calculate
to find that what is the
Ultimate question by the Earth.
Words and Phrases
- (h2g2:83) : ``Hell'', he said, ``how am I going to operate my
digital watch now?'' ....
``Ford'', he said, ``you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.''
- (h2g2:113) : ``Computer'' shouted Zaphod. ``rotate angle of
vision through one-eighty degrees and don't talk about it!''
- (h2g2:127) : Eddie's talk : (the
missiles approaching from on the Magrathea.) ``impact minus
forty-five seconds. Please call me Eddie if it will help you to
relax.''
- (h2g2:195) : It's just life. : I seem
to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style.
- (h2g2:204) : fake a question
- What' yellow and dangerous?
- What do you get if you multiply six by seven?
- How many roads must a man walk down?
- (h2g2:211) : This is probably the best button to press.
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