4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:28:57.786 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- Hello, everybody. Sorry I'm a bit late. I had a terrible time. All sorts of things cropping up at the last moment. How are we for time?
- One major selling point of that remarkable book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, apart from its relative cheapness, and the words 'Don't Panic' written in large friendly letters on the cover, is its compendious and occasionally accurate glossary.
- Its simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editor, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal.
- Hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous Galactic copyright laws.
- It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company, for infringement of the same laws.
- Here's a sample, in both headings and footnotes...
- The Universe. Some information to help you live in it. 1. Area: infinite. 2. Population: none.
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited, therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
- Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds.
- So, if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero.
- And any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
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