![]() Arriving on Magrathea, they learn from the cryogenically reactivated builder Slartibartfast that the Earth was in fact a giant computer that had been built by a race of hyper-intelligent white mice from another dimension and designed to calculate the question that goes with the answer to life, the universe and everything. Zaphod has discovered the whereabouts of Magrathea, the mythical world of custom planet builders. The ship has been stolen by Ford’s cousin, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, who travels in the company of an Earth girl Trillian and Marvin, a robot with a depressed genuine people personality. Seconds before they expire, they are picked up the Heart of Gold, an experimental spaceship that is powered by an Infinite Improbability Drive, which charts its way through events of increasingly unlikelihood. However, they are found by the Vogons, one of the most obstreperous and bureaucratic races in the galaxy, and the captain has them ejected from an airlock. Ford now uses an intergalactic hitchhiking device to teleport he and Arthur aboard the Vogon constructor fleet just before they blow the Earth up. There Ford reveals that he is in fact an alien from Betelgeuse and informs Arthur that the Earth is about to be demolished in 12 minutes to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur attempts to lie in front of the bulldozer to stop them but is interrupted by his good friend Ford Prefect who drags him to the pub. Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to find that workmen have arrived to demolish his house. ![]()
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