The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

By Douglas Adams

‘The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy’ is the title of the first of five book in the comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy begins when contractors arrive at Arthur Dent’s house to demolish it. They are making way for a bypass. Arthur’s friend Ford Prefect arrives to find Arthur lying in front of the bulldozers.

At Worlds End

Ford Prefect takes Arthur for a drink and explains to him that he is from another planet. He tells Arthur that he is on a planet quest to update the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. He then mentions that Earth is about to be demolished. An angry alien race, called the Vogons, is demolishing Earth in order to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur and Ford escape by hitching a lift on one of the Vogons’ ships.

Space Adventures

They are discovered on the Vogon ship and after being subjected to their really bad vogon classic poetry, are thrown in space. They are picked up by a ship stolen by Ford’s cousin and President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox. Arthur and Ford find themselves taken on a fancy pants adventure quest to find the planet Magrathea. When they reach Magrathea, Arthur finds out that Magrathea manufactures luxury lifestyle planets. One of the planets manufactured on Magrathea is Earth.

Earth Science

Arthur is quite upset to find out that the Earth science is actually a supercomputer commissioned and paid for. A race of hyper-intelligent beings created a live Earth to find the Question to the Answer. Unfortunately, Earth was destroyed just five minutes before that Question was discovered.

For the Tropic of Freedom Finders Keepers:
In the book, the hyper-dimensional beings already have the answer. However, they do not understand the answer. In order to understand that answer, they need to find the question behind it. We cannot except to understand the answers we think we have, if we don’t know what the clarifying questions are.

The importance of thought provoking questions is simply this
If you don’t have the question that leads you to the answer, then you won’t know the process of discovery that you go through to take you there. The process of discovery is what is important.

As Trinity says to Neo in the Matrix, ‘It is the question that drives us Neo, it’s the question that brought you here.’

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