Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Although one of the greatest computers in the Universe and able to count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond, it is just an abacus in comparison to Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe. Milliways, also known as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, can only be visited practically by time travel, as it exists at the end of time and matter. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one character who manages to reach Milliways without the use of time travel, merely by being very patient. One of the restaurant's major attractions is that
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) production on the Secondary Phase had ceased, a new radio adaptation of Adams' unadapted novel "Life, the Universe and Everything" was announced. This would become the third series of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on radio. Dirk Maggs, a friend of Adams, was chosen to create, direct and co-produce the adaptations. Maggs had previously consulted with Adams on potential radio adaptations for the final three books in 1993 and 1997. The project was restarted in September 2001 by Maggs, Helen Chattwell and Bruce Hyman, with help from Jane Belson and Ed Victor. At the time of the announcement, it