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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space with the entertainment system displaying "DON'T PANIC" In the series, Don't Panic is a phrase on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [4] The novel explains that this was partly because the device "looked insanely complicated" to operate, and partly to keep interstellar travellers from panicking ...
"Don't Panic" (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), a catchphrase from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, a 1988 book by Neil Gaiman
A third edition, with another slight title revision (now known as Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was published in the UK by Titan Books in June 2002, and contains further additional material, this time by M. J. Simpson (ISBN 1-84023-501-2).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [a] [b] is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film.
Greg Costikyan reviewed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Ares Magazine #6 and commented that "The Hitchhiker's Guide is written with superb English wit, far more humorous than any American sitcom." [4] The Pequod rated the book a 9.5 (out of 10.0) and called it "an ingeniously silly sci-fi satire... It may not add up to much, but the ...
The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch used a Tesla Roadster as a test payload, emblazoned with the words "DON'T PANIC!", a reference to the phrase from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the glove compartment of the car was a copy of the book and a towel. [22]
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe claimed in its introduction that it was possible to survive in Europe on less than US$25 a week, a claim echoed in the catchphrase of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that it was the best source of advice for those who wanted to see the universe "on less than 30 Altairian dollars a day."
According to Don't Panic, Douglas Adams wrote a guitar tune for the lullaby, and thought it should have been released. [10] In the radio series, Stephen Moore sings the words to a tune resembling "Abendsegen" from Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. The song was performed at the very end of the 2012 live radio show.