Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Index 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. [1]

112 relations: Achievement (video gaming), Air conditioning, Albert Einstein, Alien vs. Predator, Almost surely, Arthur Dent, Asphyxia, Axiom, Bail (cricket), Ballantine Books, BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects, Biological warfare, Black hole, Brain, Brownian motion, Bypass (road), City upon a Hill, Column, Computer, Conceptual model, Cricket, Cricket ball, Cupcake, Data transmission, Deus ex machina, Diode, Doomsday device, Door, Douglas Adams, Earth, Elevator, Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, Falcon Heavy, Falcon Heavy test flight, Faster-than-light, Faster-than-light communication, Fictional universe, Ford Prefect (character), Foundation (Asimov novel), General relativity, Genetic memory (psychology), Gold, Gun, Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, Homemaking, Hyperspace, Isaac Asimov, Juicer, Karey Kirkpatrick, Lawn mower, ..., Lemon, Life, the Universe and Everything, List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters, List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Luminiferous aether, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Matter, Melbourne, Milky Way, Mobile phone, Mostly Harmless, Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, No Man's Sky, Overview effect, Oxford University Press, Personal life, Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planet, Plastic, Point of view (philosophy), Poly(methyl methacrylate), Procedural generation, Prototype, Quantum mechanics, Raygun, Restaurant, Robbie Stamp, Robot, Ronald Reagan, Silver, Slartibartfast, Somebody else's problem, Space, Spacecraft propulsion, Starship, Steel, Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Ashes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Time, Torture, Trillian (character), Truth serum, Universe, Ventilation (architecture), VG247, Virtual reality, Vogon, Watch, Weapon of mass destruction, Wicket, Wood, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, Zaphod Beeblebrox. Expand index (62 more) »

Achievement (video gaming)

In video gaming parlance, an achievement, also sometimes known as a trophy, badge, award, stamp, medal, challenge or in game achievement, is a meta-goal defined outside a game's parameters.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Achievement (video gaming) · See more »

Air conditioning

Air conditioning (often referred to as AC, A/C, or air con) is the process of removing heat and moisture from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Air conditioning · See more »

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Albert Einstein · See more »

Alien vs. Predator

Alien vs.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Alien vs. Predator · See more »

Almost surely

In probability theory, one says that an event happens almost surely (sometimes abbreviated as a.s.) if it happens with probability one.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Almost surely · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Arthur Dent · See more »

Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Asphyxia · See more »

Axiom

An axiom or postulate is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Axiom · See more »

Bail (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a bail is one of the two smaller sticks placed on top of the three stumps to form a wicket.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Bail (cricket) · See more »

Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Ballantine Books · See more »

BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects

BBC Sound Effects No.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects · See more »

Biological warfare

Biological warfare (BW)—also known as germ warfare—is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with the intent to kill or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Biological warfare · See more »

Black hole

A black hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing—not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from inside it.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Black hole · See more »

Brain

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Brain · See more »

Brownian motion

Brownian motion or pedesis (from πήδησις "leaping") is the random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving molecules in the fluid.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Brownian motion · See more »

Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Bypass (road) · See more »

City upon a Hill

"A City upon a Hill" is a phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and City upon a Hill · See more »

Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Column · See more »

Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Computer · See more »

Conceptual model

A conceptual model is a representation of a system, made of the composition of concepts which are used to help people know, understand, or simulate a subject the model represents.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Conceptual model · See more »

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).

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Cricket · See more »

Cricket ball

A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Cricket ball · See more »

Cupcake

A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun; Australian English: fairy cake or patty cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Cupcake · See more »

Data transmission

Data transmission (also data communication or digital communications) is the transfer of data (a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal) over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Data transmission · See more »

Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina (or; plural: dei ex machina) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and seemingly unlikely occurrence, typically so much as to seem contrived.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Deus ex machina · See more »

Diode

A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Diode · See more »

Doomsday device

A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Doomsday device · See more »

Door

A door is a moving mechanism used to block off and allow access to, an entrance to or within an enclosed space, such as a building, room or vehicle.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Door · See more »

Douglas Adams

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Douglas Adams · See more »

Earth

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Earth · See more »

Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Elevator · See more »

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that was the dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight in February 2018.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster · See more »

Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Falcon Heavy · See more »

Falcon Heavy test flight

The Falcon Heavy Test Flight (also known as Falcon Heavy demonstration mission) was the first attempt by SpaceX to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018 at 20:45UTC.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Falcon Heavy test flight · See more »

Faster-than-light

Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel are the conjectural propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Faster-than-light · See more »

Faster-than-light communication

Superluminal communication is a hypothetical process in which information is sent at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Faster-than-light communication · See more »

Fictional universe

A fictional universe is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Fictional universe · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Ford Prefect (character) · See more »

Foundation (Asimov novel)

Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Foundation (Asimov novel) · See more »

General relativity

General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and General relativity · See more »

Genetic memory (psychology)

In psychology, genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of time.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Genetic memory (psychology) · See more »

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Gold · See more »

Gun

A gun is a tubular ranged weapon typically designed to pneumatically discharge projectiles that are solid (most guns) but can also be liquid (as in water guns/cannons and projected water disruptors) or even charged particles (as in a plasma gun) and may be free-flying (as with bullets and artillery shells) or tethered (as with Taser guns, spearguns and harpoon guns).

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Gun · See more »

Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe was a guide book, copyright 1971 by Ken Welsh and first published that year in the UK by Pan Books.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe · See more »

Homemaking

Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, otherwise known as housework, housekeeping, or household management.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Homemaking · See more »

Hyperspace

Hyperspace is a faster-than-light (FTL) method of traveling used in science fiction.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hyperspace · See more »

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Isaac Asimov · See more »

Juicer

A juicer (also known as juicing machine or juice extractor) is a tool used to extract juice from fruits, herbs, leafy greens and other types of vegetables in a process called juicing.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Juicer · See more »

Karey Kirkpatrick

Karey Kirkpatrick is an American screenwriter and director.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Karey Kirkpatrick · See more »

Lawn mower

A lawn mower (mower) is a machine utilizing one or more revolving blades to cut a grass surface to an even height.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Lawn mower · See more »

Lemon

The lemon, Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck, is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Lemon · See more »

Life, the Universe and Everything

Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Life, the Universe and Everything · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and List of minor The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and List of races and species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · See more »

Luminiferous aether

In the late 19th century, luminiferous aether or ether ("luminiferous", meaning "light-bearing"), was the postulated medium for the propagation of light.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Luminiferous aether · See more »

Marvin the Paranoid Android

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Marvin the Paranoid Android · See more »

Matter

In the classical physics observed in everyday life, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Matter · See more »

Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Melbourne · See more »

Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Milky Way · See more »

Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mobile phone · See more »

Mostly Harmless

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mostly Harmless · See more »

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management · See more »

No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and No Man's Sky · See more »

Overview effect

The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from orbit or from the lunar surface.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Overview effect · See more »

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Oxford University Press · See more »

Personal life

Personal life is the course of an individual's life, especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Personal life · See more »

Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre(s) and members of the scientific community.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Planet · See more »

Plastic

Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Plastic · See more »

Point of view (philosophy)

In philosophy, a point of view is a specified or stated manner of consideration, an attitude how one sees or thinks of something, as in "from my personal point of view".

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Point of view (philosophy) · See more »

Poly(methyl methacrylate)

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), also known as acrylic or acrylic glass as well as by the trade names Crylux, Plexiglas, Acrylite, Lucite, and Perspex among several others (see below), is a transparent thermoplastic often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Poly(methyl methacrylate) · See more »

Procedural generation

In computing, procedural generation is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Procedural generation · See more »

Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Prototype · See more »

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Quantum mechanics · See more »

Raygun

A raygun is a science fiction particle-beam weapon that fires what is usually destructive energy.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Raygun · See more »

Restaurant

A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Restaurant · See more »

Robbie Stamp

Robbie Stamp (born 1960) was the CEO of The Digital Village, a position that came about partly because of his friendship with author Douglas Adams, whose works inspired the site.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Robbie Stamp · See more »

Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Robot · See more »

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Ronald Reagan · See more »

Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Silver · See more »

Slartibartfast

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Slartibartfast · See more »

Somebody else's problem

Somebody else's problem (also known as someone else's problem or SEP) is a phrase coined comedically by Douglas Adams that refers to a "field" that hides objects.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Somebody else's problem · See more »

Space

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Space · See more »

Spacecraft propulsion

Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Spacecraft propulsion · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Starship · See more »

Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Steel · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · See more »

The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Ashes · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · See more »

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fictional electronic guide book in the multimedia scifi/comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) · See more »

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) · See more »

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series provided by John Lloyd).

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) · See more »

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases

The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', first broadcast in 1978.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases · See more »

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial)

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is an Above the Title Productions radio adaptation, dramatised by Dirk Maggs and John Langdon of Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial) · See more »

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe · See more »

Time

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Time · See more »

Torture

Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Torture · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Trillian (character) · See more »

Truth serum

"Truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Truth serum · See more »

Universe

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

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Universe · See more »

Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional introduction of ambient air into a space and is mainly used to control indoor air quality by diluting and displacing indoor pollutants; it can also be used for purposes of thermal comfort or dehumidification.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Ventilation (architecture) · See more »

VG247

VG247 (stylized as VG24/7) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and VG247 · See more »

Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Virtual reality · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Vogon · See more »

Watch

A watch is a timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Watch · See more »

Weapon of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Weapon of mass destruction · See more »

Wicket

In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Wicket · See more »

Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Wood · See more »

Young Zaphod Plays It Safe

"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" is a short story by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Young Zaphod Plays It Safe · See more »

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.

New!!: Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zaphod Beeblebrox · See more »

Redirects here:

Bistromath, Bistromathematics, Bistromathic, Bistromathic Drive, Bistromathic drive, Bistromathics, Bistromatic drive, Business End, Electronic Thumb, Extrapolated matter analysis, Genuine People Personalities, Happy Vertical People Transporter, Happy Vertical People Transporters, Heart of Gold (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Improbability drive, Infinite Improbability Drive, Infinite improbability drive, Kill-O-Zap blaster pistol, Kill-o-Zap blaster pistol, Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser, Nutrimatic drinks dispenser, POV gun, Peril-sensitive sunglasses, Point Of View (POV) Gun, Point Of View Gun, Point of View Gun, Point of view gun, Point-Of-View gun, Point-of-View gun, Point-of-view gun, QUEST (anti-god missile), R17 (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Recipriversexcluson, Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius Cybernetics Corp., Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Starship Billion Year Bunker, Starship Bistromath, Starship betamath, Sub-Etha, Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic, The starship Heart of Gold, Total Perspective Vortex, Wikkit Gate.

References

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

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »