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Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything



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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Series: Voices [5/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5779]




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After regaining ... ( 4 months ago by Irratzo)
After regaining breath again (".. because the other characteristic of bass sound is that you can't tell where it's coming from!") I suddenly realized what Adams is doing here. He is using humour to sensitise us for endangered species.
Yeah, I know, great observation. But: how do you think did he make this whole thing? Did he think, okay, these animals concern me and I'm actively gonna use my humour powers!
Or did he just tumble into this stuff and then realised how sad, funny, educational it is?
What a great orator ... ( 4 months ago by gosfordjohn)
What a great orator, able to speak at such length without notes or props or losing his place, and always interesting.
Just brilliant.
But mind you, I ... ( 4 months ago by Irratzo)
But mind you, I dont have to go to "my ends of the world" to have witness this feeling Adams described in seeing the Aye-aye. When I just go out my door and see a swallowtail, it's the same, or a shiny in the undergrowth of which I do not know the name, or a Knabenkraut (an European orchid). But alas, I don't do it so often nowadays.
1:27:36!!!!!!!!!!! ( 4 months ago by fraeueas)
1:27:36!!!!!!!!!!!
Douglas Adams has ... ( 3 months ago by trichenosis)
Douglas Adams has such great ways of saying such ordinary things.
What a fucking ... ( 3 months ago by Flighn)
What a fucking legend.
We miss you Douglas ... ( 3 months ago by ViperRob42)
We miss you Douglas, thanks for everything!
well the simple ... ( 3 months ago by GiggidyGoo20)
well the simple answer to the "need" for new things although we already got them right,is economy (stupid).how are you gonna make money? you have to make people THINK that they arent satisfied anymore by what they have,its just not enough anmore.its simple laws of free market.you need variety and plenty of completely unnecessary items in order to preserve this overconsuming society we have built.the funny thing is,we love it so much that we would sacrifice the whole planet for it.
Yeah... ( 2 months ago by davesake)
Yeah...
ok thank you for ... ( 2 months ago by Xylemdrinker)
ok thank you for showing some sense here:]
you mean he gave ... ( 2 months ago by foolishnun)
you mean he gave the SAME SPEECH on two seperate occasions? What a cock!
More like 10 ... ( 2 months ago by LtKoerschgen)
More like 10 different occasions. It's great though.
Yeh beacuse I ... ( 2 months ago by foolishnun)
Yeh beacuse I totally WASN'T being sarcastic!
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hehe.
Forty-Two Negatives ... ( 2 months ago by CelebrityHotTub)
Forty-Two Negatives for you, foolishnun!
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Brilliant. RIP ... ( 1 month ago by hackenbollox)
Brilliant. RIP Douglas. Sadly missed.
D.N.A. is my ... ( 1 month ago by FremoFluorescent)
D.N.A. is my favourite writer
I miss this guy. ( 1 month ago by Ryan44567)
I miss this guy.
Thanks for this, we ... ( 3 weeks ago by ViperRob42)
Thanks for this, we miss you Douglas... so long, and thanks for all the fish!
I've never heard a ... ( 1 week ago by badelf99)
I've never heard a better explanation for our reason to think there is a God. Amazing! We all miss your common sense!
Sorry badelf99, ... ( 6 days ago by FireflyTZA)
Sorry badelf99, actually it is a reason for us to think about how the ideology of theists has led us to believe the world, etc. was made for us... and that we can do with it what we will for our own benefit only... Sorry! Douglas Adams was an atheist. A "radical atheist," in fact.
...And, he was a ... ( 6 days ago by FireflyTZA)
...And, he was a brilliant thinker and writer who is very much missed!
I think fireflyTZA ... ( 4 days ago by UchihaDarius)
I think fireflyTZA is right badelf99
Sorry, I apparently ... ( 4 days ago by badelf99)
Sorry, I apparently don't know how to use verb tenses. "I've never heard a better explanation for our reason to think there is NO God. Amazing! We all miss your common sense." That's what I meant to say.
RIP Douglas, the ... ( 3 days ago by mush01)
RIP Douglas, the world misses you.


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