I can't believe that song is 60 years old now, I was only two years old then, I do remember the Apollo moon landing on TV in 69.
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I'm going to take my exploration Annie back to the bubble soon, when I get there, I'll have my Krait Mark II shipped out. I need to re-pin blueprints and visit other engineers I've unlocked and I don't feel comfortable cruising around the bubble without my combat ship. I might tour some compromised nav beacons and hazardous extraction sites too.
My dad told me a while ago that he remembers that too!
Well, I don't. At that point, I was still under construction...
I fly any ship I feel like flying, weapons or not.
Although I have left the solo mode behind, I rarely see other players. I guess I'm either in an area that isn't as much frequented as others or I'm on at times when the others are busy with other stuff... (Still bubblin' about...)
So was the process already achieved when Neil Young released his song Heart of Gold? I'm wondering because of your Sidewinder named like that.
My default assumption for that name would be from the 1978 radio show The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Never heard of that in my land, but according to its name, it seems more on purpose with ED!
It started on the radio then was a five book trilogy and BBC TV series much later it wasNever heard of that in my land, but according to its name, it seems more on purpose with ED!
I should get a carrier then I could take my fleet (three ships) with me, it's not conducive to my exploration style, stubborn I guess.
your still be waiting there for a long time still : main character is in the black somewhere around CB 42. while i boost the alt character up, he been there since before xmas
(your [piccy). alt character below. No, the name of my Sidey stems from Douglas Adams' five-book trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"...
Which seems to slowly turn into a tradition that in games that allow the naming of your ships, the first one will bear this name... Did it in STO many years ago, did it here, again...
When the song came out, I was about 2-3 years old, depending on which month the song was published.
But to know what you were talking about, I had to look it up on the tube. Beautiful song, which I feel like was part of the background music of my younger years, playing on the radio every once in a while...
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Well, although the name stems from that franchise, it wasn't the radio show - which I didn't know existed until I read about it way after I discovered the books.
I don't know about the radio show, either. But I know that the books are worth reading.Never heard of that in my land, but according to its name, it seems more on purpose with ED!
I fear when I'm done with buying ships, one carrier would not be enough to take them all with me on my endeavours...I should get a carrier then I could take my fleet (three ships) with me, it's not conducive to my exploration style, stubborn I guess.
HHGTTG was what got me into Vogon poetry. And how cool would it be to go into a CZ with a blurglecruncheon...
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I first read HHGG in the early 80’s when i was still pre-teen - then attempted to play through the text adventure on my Apple ][ a few years later… i read the complete series, as the later books were added to the “increasingly inaccurately named ‘trilogy’”, eventually acquired the old BBC TV series on DVD… terms like “pan galactic gargle blaster” and “infinite improbability drive” are forever part of my vocabulary, just as the number 42 still has special significance to me - though i never did manage to finish that adventure game…
*it’s still here courtesy of the BBC btw - think i might just give it a try again… ;]
*it’s still here courtesy of the BBC btw - think i might just give it a try again… ;]
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Never heard of that in my land, but according to its name, it seems more on purpose with ED!
As well as the history everybody else commented on, it's worth noting that Bell and Braben were fans (hardly surprising, it was THE sci-fi phenomenon through the early 80s in the UK.) Some of the text fragments used for planet descriptions are obviously inspired by it but the "Mostly Harmless" rating/joke is taken directly from the fictional Guide's description of Earth.
ETA: the writing voice in the original paper flight manual is an obvious pastiche too and quite a lot of that made it into ED.
I think my favourite book was the one they released, as an anniversary I think, of the radio scripts.I first read HHGG in the early 80’s when i was still pre-teen - then attempted to play through the text adventure on my Apple ][ a few years later… i read the complete series, as the later books were added to the “increasingly inaccurately named ‘trilogy’”, eventually acquired the old BBC TV series on DVD… terms like “pan galactic gargle blaster” and “infinite improbability drive” are forever part of my vocabulary, just as the number 42 still has special significance to me - though i never did manage to finish that adventure game…
*it’s still here courtesy of the BBC btw - think i might just give it a try again… ;]
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Same for me...
And every time I read something about scientists finding another species capable of doing something that requires abstract thinking or other feats of inteliigence, I feel assured that Mr. Adams was right about us humans not being the top of the line in that department. Though I sometimes wonder if he wasn't a little too optimistic about our overall placement in these charts...