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

...then again, the La Brea tar pits in late ice age conditions, the sticky deposits of mixed asphalt and naptha all around the danger area wouldn't have been as sticky and as a matter of fact might have supported the weight of even rather large animals well into the danger area...

Yes, you never know.

What do you think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8WF3vGUn8&feature=player_embedded

Well, it doesn't make any sense t me. If you're going to take a time machine back to the filming of a famous movie, you should at least arrange to be in a scene that won't be cut from the final movie.

I think it is too big to be a mobile phone, probably an actress rehearsing lines. But if we could go back in time we would know what happened to lilith.

I'm not convinced that there ever *was* a real person corresponding to the Lilith myth.

There are no objective proofs with respect to anyone, that long ago.

maybe there are - but we might as well look for a certain grain of sand among the asteroids. a herculean task

It might be possible; for Hercules.

Hercules? Right! Another mythical personage of dubious existence.

[Dodges lightningbolts ]

what next? will you also doubt the existence of great a'tuin?

I have absolutely no idea who that is, Pierce. My phones are open, so if great a'tuin wants to call, I'm here.

infidel!

great a'tuin is the giant turtle that swims though the vastness of the universe carrying four gigantic elephants on its back who in turn on their backs carry the great disc that is the world

Mmm, I knew that.

Well, a'tuin has a great deal of work to do, and I would be the last person who would want to distract him from his job, so why don't we just let this go remarked, eh?

Sorry, I meant unremarked, not remarked.

that's okay with me, but i'm sure great a'tuin has made a note about it

but if you buy the next round for his devoted followers - that's us - i'm sure you'll be forgiven

His? Sacrilege!

Does anyone know if a'tuin has teenage mutant warriors?

re 78:

why, mala, what have you heard?