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"I believe in limited government, and the 20th century has been the century of government. The data is uniform. The government has failed at every single task it has set out to do, with the exception of waging war."
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Yes, this part of the book was the inspiration for naming the AltaVista website translation feature. At this point in the novel, Arthur Dent finds himself in a Vogon spacecraft. Their voices are not exactly music to the human ear.
Once he had the Babel Fish in his ear, Arthur understood perfectly. The Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation from every source but its host. It then excretes enegry in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said.
The Babel Fish reverses the problem defined by its namesake; the original Tower of Babel (according to the Bible) inspired the Deity to confuse human beings by making them unable to understand each other. Comment/Join this discussion ( 7 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'Chain of hotels that specialized in non-human service.'
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'But then... not every bulldozer operator works on the Moon.'
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'Griff found the white and pink map distracting and switched it off using his tongue mouse.'
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