Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 92 million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

— The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book (Peter Jones)

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16 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:00:47.014 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Come on, let's get down to the teleport.

- What the hell's that? (2)

- If we're lucky, it's a Vogon guard come to throw us into space.

- And if we're unlucky?

- The Vogon captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.

- Far out, in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

- Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 92 million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

- This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

- Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

- Which is odd because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy, and so the problem remained,

- And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

[...]

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