Though it will usually take a large civilization many thousands of years to pass through the 'How?', 'Why?' and 'Where?' phases, small social groupings, under stressful conditions can pass through these phases with extreme rapidity, thus...
13 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:01:05.394 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- Now I think I really am going to be ill.
- Go ahead. We could do with a little color about the place.
- Oh, that's better. Have you managed to make sense of the controls?
- No. We just stopped fiddling with them.
- Okay, Hotblack, the black ship's ready to crash into the sun. Time to get there ourselves.
- Badly.
- Why not?
- Shut up.
- Excitement and adventure and really wild things...
- Excitement and adventure and really wild things have been dogging Arthur Dent now for some days.
- He has, for instance, had his planet demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass...
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