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https://www.economist.com/prospero/2020/03/06/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-turns-42
EVERY YEAR the world celebrates the anniversaries of masterworks and maestros. In 2020 there will be a host of events and publications commemorating the lives of Ludwig van Beethoven, Raphael, Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë and William Wordsworth. Such milestones usually come in neat multiples of 50. The 42nd anniversary of anything is rarely observed.
Yet on March 8th fans of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ("HHGTTG") will pay tribute to the comedy science-fiction series, which had its radio premiere on that day in 1978 and was subsequently adapted into novels, TV series, video games and a film. To mark the occasion, Pan Macmillan has reprinted the scripts and novels in colourful new editions ("HHGTTG" was the first book published under their "Pan Original" imprint to sell more than 1m copies). The British Library will host a day of "celebrations, conversation and performance". BBC Radio 4 has aired the original episodes; Radio 4 Extra will put on a "five-hour Hitchhiker's spectacular" including archival material and specially commissioned programmes. Such is the enduring interest in Douglas Adams's story that it is due to be adapted into a new television series by Hulu, a streaming service.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday March 08 2020, @10:52PM (4 children)
We are all now being advised to sanitize our telephones.
I like to say that it was all just a minor hearing problem among the white mice and that Deep Thought gave the sensible answer that the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is "fortitude". I believe many other people have come up with that one independently.
(Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Monday March 09 2020, @03:10AM (2 children)
It's true! [who.int] From the (PDF) link on Page 2:
(emphasis added)
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @08:28AM (1 child)
With the coronavirus coming.. this prediction could be spot on
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @08:29AM
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday March 09 2020, @11:01AM
I used to wonder if it could be "for the Two". If so we'd need to build another computer to figure out who the Two are. Perhaps some religious figures or possibly a breeding pair or a loving couple? Two kinds of fundamental particle? Two outdated and particularly unreliable, tobacco-stained fax machines, sitting in a pile of unused paraphernalia in a small bedroom above a betting shop in Kent?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?