Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at anybody at that moment he probably would have burnt his signature on them." In the 2005 movie adaptation, the gun has a sophisticated look. It is more of a white sphere that covers the hand and has a trigger on the inside. This version is wielded by Marvin. The Point of View Gun is a device created by Douglas Adams for the movie version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; it does not appear in any of the previous versions of the story. According to the film, the gun was created by Deep Thought prior to its long
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" "fits", the word Carroll used to name the chapters of "The Hunting of the Snark". There is the persistent tale that 42 is Adams' tribute to the indefatigable paperback book, and is the average number of lines on an average page of an average paperback. Another common guess is that 42 refers to the number of laws in cricket, a recurring theme of the books. Mathematicians found a question whose answer is 42: what is the largest (rational) number n such that there are positive integers "p", "q", "r" such that