English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

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Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams ' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

* Peter Douglas Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.

The second book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker Trilogy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, was inspired by the song " Grand Hotel ", from Procol Harum's album of the same name.

King and Gould both claim to have been reading Douglas Adams ' comical science fiction novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wherein the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, is ' 42 '.

* Douglas Adams-The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Life, the Universe and Everything ( 1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9 ) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by British writer Douglas Adams.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ( 1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0 ) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction pentalogy of five by Douglas Adams.

* Life, the Universe and Everything, a book by Douglas Adams

* Puddle thinking is a satirical illustration of the " life is fine-tuned to the Universe " argument above coined by Douglas Adams to satirize the Fine-tuned Universe argument for supernatural creationism.

In the end of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, a possible question to get the answer " forty-two " is presented: " What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

* 42-The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, first used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage co-edited with Douglas Kellner ( 2nd printing – New York: Columbia University Press, 1988 ; 1st printing – South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey ; New York: Universe Books ; and London: Croom Helm, 1983 ).

" Gnab Gib " is the opposite of the Big Bang as referenced in Douglas Adams ' book " The Restauraunt at the End of the Universe " book to in the series " The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy " a trilogy in 5 parts.

Kubrick chose Universe narrator Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer and also hired Wally Gentleman, who did optical effects for the NFB documentary, to work on 2001.

Robinson played for several years with Stax stars like Eddie Floyd and once jammed with Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles Express ' guitarist Jim McCarty and Jimi Hendrix ' drummer Mitch Mitchell, a heavily edited recording of which was released as ' Jimi / Jimmy Jam ' on the posthumous compilation Jimi Hendrix album Nine to the Universe which features other heavily edited, disparate studio jams with widely varying personnel, recorded over the span of six months during 1969, that producer Alan Douglas ( although not involved in the original recordings, but was himself a jazz producer from the early sixties, and also a compiler, and editor of other posthumous compilation releases of some note.

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, by Douglas Adams, the entire Earth is portrayed as programmable matter ; a computer designed to find the question to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

It was named for novelist Douglas Adams, because its provisional designation happened to contain the year of his death, his initials, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything ( 42 ), as given in his novel serial The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In Life, the Universe and Everything ( 1982 ), the third book in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect travel through the space-time continuum to Lord's, where a shocking act of cricket vandalism takes place-the Ashes trophy is stolen by a band of robber-robots from the planet Krikkit.