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42 (or forty-two) is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of -
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Welcome to the... HITCHHIKERS WIKI 647 articles • 803 files • 18,204 edits WELCOME Welcome to Hitchhikers Wiki! A wiki dedicated to the truly amazing work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams -
Vogon poetry
Vogon poetry is a variety of poetry, often considered to be one of the worst. It is sometimes used by the Vogons as a torture method, as it causes physical pain to the hearer. A -
Arthur Dent
Arthur Philip Dent was the hapless ape-descended human man from Earth who found himself thrown upon wild adventures around the Universe. With Ford Prefect, his friend of several years, Dent barely escaped the Earth -
Marvin
Marvin, more fully known as Marvin the Paranoid Android, is an incredibly brilliant but overwhelmingly depressed robot manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and unwilling servant to the crew of the Heart of Gold. In -
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is an alcoholic beverage invented by ex-President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, considered by the Guide to be the "Best Drink in Existence." Its effects are similar to "having -
Infinite Improbability Drive
The Infinite Improbability Drive was a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without "tedious mucking about in hyperspace." It was discovered by lucky chance and then developed -
Babel Fish
The Babel fish is a small, bright yellow fish, which can be placed in someone's ear in order for them to be able to hear any language translated into their first language. Ford Prefect -
Towel
A towel is the most important item a Hitchhiker can carry. Ford Prefect and his fellow hitchhiker and friend Roosta both emphasise the importance of towels throughout Hitchhiker's and are both known to carry -
Deep Thought
Deep Thought was a supernatural-computer programmed to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. It designed the other supercomputer Earth, which was built by the Magratheans. Two programmers -
Ultimate Question
The Ultimate Question is the actual inquiry behind the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ultimate Question was sought after the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed the Ultimate Answer to be 42. When -
Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect (a.k.a. Ix) was a friend of Arthur Dent, and the semi-cousin of The President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox. While on Earth, he posed as an out-of-work actor -
Heart of Gold
The starship Heart of Gold was the first spacecraft to make use of the Infinite Improbability Drive. The craft was stolen by then-President Zaphod Beeblebrox at the official launch of the ship, as he -
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox, or the Big Z, was a former President of the Galaxy. At the beginning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod steals the starship Heart of Gold, which Arthur Dent and -
Golgafrinchans
The Golgafrinchans were a race of humanoid beings who split their population into three distinct groups and sent their third group, the middlemen, on a spaceship which eventually ended up on planet Earth. The Golgafrinchans -
Total Perspective Vortex
The Total Perspective Vortex was a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became used as a method of torture. It first appeared in the Secondary Phase of The -
Magrathea
Magrathea is an ancient planet located in orbit around the twin suns Soulianis and Rahm in the heart of the Horsehead Nebula. It was the home of a new form of specialist industry: custom-made -
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
The Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet of Golgafrincham. The ship was led by the captain, with Number One -
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings was a poet who wrote the worst poetry in the universe. In fact, her poetry is still considered to be the worst in the Galaxy, closely followed by that of the -
Shoe Event Horizon
The Shoe Event Horizon is an economic theory that draws a correlation between the level of economic (and emotional) depression of a society and the number of shoe shops the society has. The theory is -
Somebody Else's Problem Field
A Somebody Else's Problem field, or S.E.P., is a useful way of safely protecting something from unwanted eyes. Slartibartfast's ship, Bistromath, was covered in an S.E.P. field. An S -
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (travel guide)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also known simply as the Guide or the book, was a guidebook for hitch-hikers throughout the Universe which featured heavily in the sci-fi series of the -
List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This is a list of races, fauna, and flora (as well as creatures without category) featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The fictional creations have, as they are comedic -
Trillian
Tricia McMillan, usually known as Trillian and sometimes Trillian Astra, was a human astrophysicist and mathematician whom Arthur Dent completely failed to chat up at a party at a flat in Islington. Trillian eventually left -
Life, the Universe and Everything
“We have normality, I repeat we have normality.” This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the Hitchhiker's universe
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