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List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Index 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. [1]

63 relations: Aerosol spray, Arthur Dent, Asgard, Asteroid, Backup, Big Bang, Bird, Booster (rocketry), Bullfighter, Caveman, Charles Darwin, Cricket, Deodorant, Dirk Maggs, Doctor Who, Dolphin, Douglas Adams, Earth, Existence of God, Ford Prefect (character), God, Human, Intermodal container, Isaac Newton, List of liqueurs, List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters, List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Magpie, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Mostly Harmless, Mouse, Netball, No Sex Please, We're British, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Omelette, Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planet, Prism, Refraction, Scrabble, Slapstick, Slartibartfast, Somersault, Spaceflight, Starship, Story within a story, Suspended animation, Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Teleportation, Television, ..., The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series), The Rings of Akhaten, The Star-Spangled Banner, Thor, Towel, Trillian (character), Universal translator, Universe, Vogon, Wheel, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Zebra crossing. Expand index (13 more) »

Aerosol spray

Aerosol spray is a type of dispensing system which creates an aerosol mist of liquid particles.

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Arthur Dent

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Asgard

In Norse religion, Asgard ("Enclosure of the Æsir") is one of the Nine Worlds and home to the Æsir tribe of gods.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Backup

In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying into an archive file of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

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Big Bang

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Booster (rocketry)

A booster rocket (or engine) is either the first stage of a multistage launch vehicle, or else a shorter-burning rocket used in parallel with longer-burning sustainer rockets to augment the space vehicle's takeoff thrust and payload capability.

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Bullfighter

A bullfighter is a performer in the sport of bullfighting.

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Caveman

A caveman is a stock character representative of primitive man in the Paleolithic.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Deodorant

A deodorant is a substance applied to the body to prevent body odor caused by the bacterial breakdown of perspiration in armpits, feet, and other areas of the body.

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Dirk Maggs

Dirk Maggs, a freelance writer and director working across all media, is principally known for his work in radio, where he evolved radio drama into "Audio Movies," a near-visual approach combining scripts, layered sound effects, cinematic music and cutting edge technology.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dolphin

Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Existence of God

The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and popular culture.

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Ford Prefect (character)

Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams.

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from ship to rail to truck – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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List of liqueurs

Liqueurs are alcoholic beverages that are bottled with added sugar and have added flavors that are usually derived from fruits, herbs, or nuts.

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List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters

The following is an alphabetical list of the minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

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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.

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Magpie

Magpies are birds of the Corvidae (crow) family.

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Marvin the Paranoid Android

Marvin, the Paranoid Android, is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.

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Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless is a 1992 novel by Douglas Adams and the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

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Mouse

A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.

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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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No Sex Please, We're British

No Sex Please, We're British is a British farce written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, which premiered in London's West End on 3 June 1971.

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15, issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts (see 1820 in poetry).

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Omelette

In cuisine, an omelette or omelet is a dish made from beaten eggs fried with butter or oil in a frying pan (without stirring as in scrambled egg).

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Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Planet

A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

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Prism

In optics, a prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that refract light.

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Refraction

Refraction is the change in direction of wave propagation due to a change in its transmission medium.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.

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Slapstick

Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.

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Slartibartfast

Slartibartfast is a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy/science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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Somersault

A somersault (also flip, heli, and in gymnastics salto) is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head.

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Spaceflight

Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space.

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Starship

A starship, starcraft or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems, as opposed to an aerospace-vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel.

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Story within a story

A story within a story is a literary device in which one character within a narrative narrates.

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Suspended animation

Suspended animation is the inducement of a temporary cessation or decay of main body functions, including the brain, to a hypometabolic state in order to try to preserve its mental and physiological capabilities.

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Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The fictional universe of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams is a galaxy-spanning society of interacting extraterrestrial cultures.

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Teleportation

Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which was broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two.

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The Rings of Akhaten

"The Rings of Akhaten" is the seventh episode of the seventh series of the British science-fiction drama Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 6 April 2013.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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Thor

In Norse mythology, Thor (from Þórr) is the hammer-wielding god of thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, in addition to hallowing, and fertility.

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Towel

A towel is a piece of absorbent fabric or paper used for drying or wiping a body or a surface.

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Trillian (character)

Tricia Marie McMillan, also known as Trillian Astra, is a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Universal translator

A universal translator is a device common to many science fiction works, especially on television.

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Universe

The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.

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Vogon

The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—initially a BBC Radio series by Douglas Adams—who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project for a hyperspace express route.

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Wheel

A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle bearing.

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Zaphod Beeblebrox

Zaphod Beeblebrox is a fictional character in the various versions of the humorous science fiction story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Zebra crossing

A zebra crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing used in many places around the world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

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