Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.
— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)
11 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 3 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:22:40.760 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- I think I'll just take a short walk.
- You choose a cold night to visit our dead planet.
- Do not be alarmed. I will not harm you.
- But you shot at us. There were missiles.
- I think they take the occasional pot-shot to relieve the monotony.
- I'm a great fan of science, you know.
- Really?
- Oh, yes.
- Dead? No, we have but slept, for five million years. Nothing much seems to have changed.
- Slept?
- Yes, through the economic recession.
[...]
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Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)
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