Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

ok thank you for showing some sense here:]

Yeah...

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.

We miss you Douglas, thanks for everything!

What a F**king legend.

Douglas Adams has such great ways of saying such ordinary things.

1:27:36!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

What a great orator, able to speak at such length without notes or props or losing his place, and always interesting.
Just brilliant.

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?

Actually humans were never apes. Apes and Humans are both desended from a common ancester that has yet to be discovered (the Missing Link).

It's a shame he keeps referring to humans as monkeys. We're apes.

That was a terrific advert for his best work; the book "Last Chance To See".

The answer to life, for me anyway, has always and will always be 42....

Awesome.