~A~ Tribute to Douglas Adams
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The loss of our founder and icon came as a great shock to all at h2g2. Tributes from researchers can be found on Douglas' page of the Guide: DNA at h2g2
Further tributes from DNA's fans can be found at:
Pay Your Tribute Too
I've donated to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and so should you. Do it for Douglas... do it for the gorillas1... do it for the planet. But please, do it now!
If you want to know more about these incredible relatives of ours, please read Douglas' book Last Chance To See, and watch the film Gorillas In The Mist, all about Dian Fossey's work.
And the last word is from Douglas...
"It's a desperate thing, not only because another species is lost and the tragedy of that, but because I don't know why we keep building these f*****g dams... Not only do they cause environmental and social disasters, they, with very few exceptions, all fail to do what they were supposed to do in the first place. Look at the Amazon, where they've all silted up. What is the reaction to that? They're going to build another 80 of them. It's just balmy. We must have beaver genes or something. ... There's just this kind of sensational desire to build dams, and maybe that should be looked at and excised from human nature. Maybe the Human Genome Project can locate the beaver/dam-building gene and cut that out."
- Douglas Adams, April 2001, UCSB Daily Nexus
