h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have an inkling that it is naturally, ie not mechanically produced...




GT

For my title clues I've used definitions, and anagrams and even most recently a partial quotation - but this is a straight forward riddle.

My one real contribution to this thread to give you something else to work at while your sub-concious is tested to identify my mystery noise.

Well it *might* be an instrument - I'm not saying one way or the other just yet....

I find in the rush to get my ideas out of my head, down my arms and out through my fingers, I'm often going faster than my own body can keep up so I often make silly transposition errors, like leaving out words or omitting negatives so writing "do" instead of "don't"

It's annoying, if you catch me doing it, slap me round the chops with the wet haddock of reality.

The title reminds me of Shawshank Redemption. "You were right Governor, salvation lay within", having hidden his little rock hammer inside that Bible for a good many years.


Geggs

That's an interesting thought gt, tell us more....

>>how does the title clue relate to interstellar space?<<

A take on we came from the stars, religion, and being everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

I think?

Was the last one from Einstein or Hawkings? Or did I imagine it?

MMF

Ooh I hadn't spotted that link - oh that's very clever.

The sound is produced by some organism from the Natural World...



GT

That's why I queried the possible word transposition.

MMF

I would say a good place to hear this sound is in Australia.

Okay for the title clue, I am referencing a *very old idea* - for part of it. But that's all your getting. Nothing to do with Hawking or Einstein or.

(The quote "Happily Violence" - I don't think I ever explained and I should have - came from a novel from 1900 or so, wherein the the phrase "seeing red" is first recorded in print as a synonym for 'getting angry')

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/see-red.html

Why, what's in Australia Shagbark?

It's the strong wind sound that leads me away from that, GT. Otherwise surely it coud be recorded in a lab.

Although wind blowing across a dead trunk leading to the creation of a certain famous type of (avoiding inducing word here ) wind instrument might be an outside chance...

Here it comes!!!

MMF

Eventually you're going to have to name something gt - try me, you never know - I might not have predicted what you are thinking of.

shagbark.

MMF

Fair enough MMF, it's an artefact of my learning disorder. I make silly writing errors and don't often detect them.

You are all so suspicious - I can't imagine why? - did it never occur to you that you can here the wind blowing over the mike becuase the person is stood outside and it's a windy day?

I am not sure of the spelling-
My Encyclopedia Brittanica does not list it
but what is in Australia... why a diggeri-do.

Should have used a shielded mike then!

MMF