Ladies and gentlemen, the universe as we know it has been in existence for 170000 million billion years, and will be ending in a little over 10 minutes time.

12 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:13:12.102 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Concert goers judge that the best sound balance is heard from large concrete bunkers 37 miles from the stage, while the musicians play their instruments by remote control from a insulated spaceship in orbit round the planet, or a different planet.

- Well, hi there, Ford. Did you talk to your big noise friend?

- Uh, Hot... Uh... Hotblack? Yeah, I, er... I sort of spoke to him, yeah.

- Well, what did he say?

- Well, not a lot. He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

- Oh, yeah? Neat!

- Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

- Ladies and gentlemen, the universe as we know it has been in existence for 170000 million billion years, and will be ending in a little over 10 minutes time.

- So welcome one and all to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe!

- I am your host for this evening, Max Quordlepleen, and I have come straight from the very, very other end of time where I've been hosting a show at the Big Bang Burger Bar, where we had a very exciting evening, ladies and gentlemen.

- And I will be with you right through this tremendous, historic occasion: the end of history itself!

- So, now, ladies and gentlemen, take your places at table.

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