Here’s a nice bit of trivia for you: As the characters in The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy approach the ancient and presumed-abandoned planet of Magrathea, the automatic planetary defense system launches a pair of nuclear missiles at them and their fabulous ship the Heart of Gold. Eddie, the Heart of Gold’s onboard computer (imbued with GPP–Genuine People Personality), begins singing a song aloud as the missiles approach, intermittently updating the occupants with the time to impact. Now…what was the name of that song?
Answer: You’ll Never Walk Alone, by Gerry and the Pacemakers
Youll Never Walk Alone (2002 Digital Remaster) – Gerry & The Pacemakers
In my opinion, this goes a long way to furthering the proof of Douglas Adams’s genius. What better song could there be to have sung to you when you’re on the doorstep of destruction?
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Five seconds to impact, fellas. Been good to know you.
Yeah, that’s a great sequence full of a bunch of things (including the bowl of petunias, which is explained later in the trilogy).
Yes, right. I spontaneously decided to read them again, so I’m on my way through at least my fifth reading. Curiously, I didn’t see any HHG2TG at DragonCon, so I was thinking about donning a bathrobe and sticking a bone in my beard.