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 Heart of Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heart of Gold (spaceship), a fictional spaceship in the Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams
Heart of Gold (Firefly episode), an episode in the TV series Firefly
Heart of Gold (novel), a book by Sharon Shinn
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heart_of_Gold   (135 words)

  
 Heart of Gold - Enpsychlopedia
Heart of Gold is a fictional spaceship in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
S.S. Heart of Gold is the first prototype ship to successfully utilise the new revolutionary Infinite Improbability Drive.
For the novel by Sharon Shinn see Heart of Gold (novel).
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Heart_of_Gold   (384 words)

  
 BBC Online - Cult - Hitchhiker's - Guide - The Starship Heart of Gold
The Heart of Gold is the sleekest, most advanced, coolest spaceship in the galaxy.
Unfortunately, the Heart of Gold was stolen during its launch ceremony by the President of the Galaxy.
The ship is equipped with the latest in Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers with GPP technology.
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/hitchhikers/guide/heartofgold.shtml   (123 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
He brings them aboard his stolen spaceship, the Heart of Gold, whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android (a severely depressed robot), and Trillian, a woman known by Arthur as the only other surviving human being.
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals.
Briefly reunited with the others for a trip to Milliways, the restaurant of the title, Zaphod and Trillian discover that the Universe is in the safe hands of a simple man living on a remote planet in a wooden shack with his cat.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Hitchhiker%27s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy   (123 words)

  
 Articles - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
When Zaphod finally meets Zarniwoop, after a detour to the Frogstar system, Zaphod turns out to have a model of the Heart of Gold in his jacket pocket.
Zaphod and Trillian return to the Heart of Gold, which is commandeered by Zarniwoop to complete his mission: to discover who really rules the Universe.
This was changed slightly in the 2004-05 radio series adaptations of the final three books: Zaphod and Trillian escaped back to the Heart of Gold together, and Marvin was left behind on the Haggunnenon ship, before being rescued.
www.sinoz.com /articles/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe   (808 words)

  
 Event.html
white glittery suit, silver spaceship w/gold portholes & red lights, black boot soles w/gold, white, & red dots, blue froglets (Batch #2)
glittery teal suit, silver boots, silver spaceship w/light teal edge & lime green & teal lights, teal boot soles w/silver, teal & green dots, silver topknot, lime green antennae, teal froglets (Batch #5)
Created for store specials; cream dress with brown stripes, pink heart.
www.weeforestfolkclub.org /ML/Event.html   (924 words)

  
 IMG News: ECTS: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Info and Screenshots
Travelling through the squalid surroundings of a Vogon Constructor Fleet spaceship, the swamplands of Squornshellous Zeta, the splendour of the fabled Heart-Of-Gold with it's Infinite-Improbability Drive and the legendary planet constructing depths of Magrathea, Arthur must battle with aliens, solve puzzles and of course, talk with annoying lifts!
The main weapon which Arthur uses is his towel, a vital piece of equipment for all hitchhikers, without one you'll never be known by your counterparts as a hoopy frood.
Rather than directly following the plot of the books, the game will take characters that many readers will be familiar such as Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Paranoid Android and uses them to create an entirely new adventure.
www.insidemacgames.com /news/story.php?ArticleID=3720   (924 words)

  
 Beetle (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emerging from the void, the Thunderbolts encountered their former teammates Hawkeye and Songbird, who had formed their own version of the Thunderbolts, who were similarly engaged with the void from the real Earth's counterpart of the spaceship.
MACH-2 and Songbird turned their equipment over to the authorities and started new civilian lives in the town of Burton Canyon, Colorado as Abe Jenkins and Melissa Gold.
Despite their reluctance to risk their newfound freedom, Jenkins and Songbird agreed to join Citizen V (secretly Baron Helmut Zemo controlling Citizen V's body) in attacking Graviton as part of a new team of Thunderbolts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beetle_(comics)   (1671 words)

  
 Sphere - movie review by Mark Leeper
One major secret is the meaning of the huge sphere of gold-toned liquid metal at the heart of this spaceship.
So in the logic of the film industry a good way to make a profitable film would be to make a big-budget adaptation of another Crichton science fiction novel.
SPHERE is faithful to a fairly mediocre novel
www.eclectica.org /v2n3/leeper_sphere.html   (610 words)

  
 analysis
The best known example of this is the Infinite Improbability Drive aboard the Heart of Gold spaceship, which can move across vast distances of space nearly instantaneously by creating an infinite improbability field in which something as improbable as suddenly being in a different place is generated.
This is because the warp drive employed is vulnerable to gravity wells; that is, in the presence of a large body of mass, spacetime is curved strongly enough so that it is not safe to curve it again via a warp drive.
To that end, the unique choice of space propulsion drives helps to advance the books' mockery of other works of science fiction, which are equally improbable yet revealed to their audiences as possibly probable.
www-scf.usc.edu /~aaronwon/project/analysis.htm   (610 words)

  
 Articles - Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold is a fictional spaceship in The Hitchhiker& Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
In Life, the Universe and Everything, it is revealed that the core of the Improbability Drive is actually the Golden Bail of Prosperity, one of five items that forms the Wikkit Gate.
The drive is subsequently stolen by the robots of Krikkit, but is later recovered by Zaphod Beeblebrox and reinstalled.
www.motionize.com /articles/Heart_of_Gold   (610 words)

  
 Odyssee Globetrotter Hostel Berlin - budget Backpacker accommodation / preiswert übernachten in Berlin, Germany
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www.hostel-berlin.de   (610 words)

  
 Ex Libris Book Reviews
Catching a lift with the cooking crew of the Vogon ship that destroyed Earth, Arthur and Ford are subjected to the torture of Vogon poetry before being ejected into space, only to be picked up by Zaphod Beeblebrox, the galaxy's BMOC, with his Heart of Gold improbability spaceship.
From the Indian American couple recovering from still birth of their first child, to the epileptic girl who overcomes her patron's rejection to create a life for herself, these stories' characters are sensitively drawn, leaving them etched into our subconscious.
By the time they were rescued, only a little more than 300 of the original 900 had survived.
www.elise.com /books/el   (610 words)

  
 UGO.com Film/TV - Marvin's Robot Commentary - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I am Marvin, the resident artificial intelligence aboard the Heart of Gold, a spaceship stolen by the President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Though not technically a robot (the whole living tissue over a metal endoskeleton thing), I find the Terminator to be the most interesting A.I. in this heaping pile of scrap metal - at least he has the potential for job satisfaction.
But even this simple robot was light years ahead of you humans.
www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/hitchhikersguide/marvin.asp   (257 words)

  
 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford's semi-cousin and sometime Galactic President, unknowingly saves the pair from death in his stolen spaceship, the Heart of Gold, whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android, a severely depressed robot, and Trillian, a woman known by Arthur as the only other surviving human being.
Last but not least, h2g2 - The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, launched as the "Earth version" of the Guide, is a website hosted by the BBC featuring a range of user-submitted articles.
Unfortunately for them, they have done so by hitching a ride onboard one of the Vogons' ships, and after being read some Vogon poetry, they are promptly thrown out of an airlock.
www.thebucklist.com /hitchhikersguide.html   (3793 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy - Books Review
Zaphod and Marvin end up at the Hitchhikers Guide offices on Ursa Minor Beta while Ford, Arthur and Trillian are stuck on the Heart of Gold in the middle of nowhere, with the controls locked.
When Ford visits Arthur to pick the guide up, he discovers it is guiding Random, who steals Ford's spaceship to return to Earth to see where she comes from.
The Title: The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy is a device used by Douglas Adams to explain bits of plot or at times just to insert random bits of fictional information.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A986330   (1839 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford's semi-cousin and sometime Galactic President, saves the pair from death in his (stolen) spaceship, the Heart of Gold, whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android, a terminally depressed robot, and Trillian (character)Trillian/, a woman known by Arthur as the only other surviving human being.
The character of Lionel, in the PBS Kids' series Between the Lions wears a '42' on his rugby jersey sleeve.
Ford and Arthur, meanwhile, fall backwards through time and end up on a spacecraft full of the outcasts of the Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#GolgafrinchamGolgafrincham/ civilization.
www.infothis.com /find/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (3772 words)

  
 EDDIE
Eddie the Shipboard Computer is the computer on board the spaceship Heart of Gold in the fiction book Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
" EDDIE " is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.83% of the time.
"EDDIE" is a common misspelling or typo for: eddied, eddies, eddy.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/EDDIE   (3772 words)

  
 SongBook TheatEar The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Story: Though Zaphod has managed to escape the Total Perspective Vortex - at the cost, perhaps, of a bit of what's left of his sanity - the Heart of Gold crew's problems are only beginning.
Ford's attempt to flag down a passing spaceship to hitch a ride has instead resulted in the ship crashing and causing a volcanic eruption, leaving the two hitchhikers trapped in a cave with no escape.
He left big trouble behind long ago and is now in galaxy-sized trouble - he has been taken to the Frogstar, the most evil world in all the galaxy, where he has a date with the Total Perspective Vortex...a usually fatal sentence.
www.thelogbook.com /b5covers/hhg/year2.htm   (1237 words)

  
 Earth in fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A puppet show in the episode "Heart of Gold" implies that Earth has in fact been obliterated, but this has yet to be actually confirmed on screen.
After fleeing the planet, the remnants of humanity travelled in generation ships for decades (many humans lived their entire lives within a spaceship's walls) until finding a new star system.
Earth's location could have been lost to the sands of time and with the planet presumed destroyed or rendered uninhabitable or even no one (human or otherwise) caring where it is. This scenario is expressed in the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earth_in_fiction   (1656 words)

  
 McLean Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His screen credits include the Disney movie The Cat from Outer Space as a friend of Dr. Frank Wilson, (played by actor Ken Berry) who found a cat whose spaceship had crashed and needed a bar of gold bullion to get back home.
He died in 1996 from a heart attack and was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Coincidentally, Roger Bowen, who played Henry Blake in the M*A*S*H movie, died of the same cause the following day.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/McLean_Stevenson   (810 words)

  
 Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Nostalgia Central
Ford and Arthur start out on the spaceship Heart of Gold where they meet President Zaphod Beeblebrox, his girlfriend Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android ("Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?").
My favourite characters are probably Shootie and Bang-Bang - two enlightened and liberal galactic cops who shoot people and then agonize about it later to their girlfriends (Possibly based on The Professionals or Starsky and Hutch).
They bump into the ugly green Vogons (who write the worst poetry in the universe), the Golgafrinchians (advertising executives and telephone sanitizers who were banished from their planet for being totally useless) and plutonium rock and roller, Hotblack Desiado.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/hitchhikers.htm   (810 words)

  
 The HHG Project - Heart Of Gold
The Heart Of Gold is equipped with the new Infinite Improbability Drive.
The core of this drive is made of solid gold, thus the name.
A brand new state of the art spaceship, stolen at its unveiling on the planet Damogran by Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox.
hhgproject.org /entries/heartofgold.html   (106 words)

  
 New Zealand's source for World News on Stuff.co.nz: UK science museum joins Hollywood for space journey
From the dreary dark Vogon zone, the next stop is the bright, clear and very clean Heart of Gold Spaceship, powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive, which saves the two galactic hitchhikers after the Vogons throw them into space.
Among the 11 zones in the exhibit one will include the actual Marvin used in the film and delve into the science of artificial intelligence and robots.
www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3271903a12,00.html   (782 words)

  
 Infinite Improbability Drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Infinite Improbability Drive is the spaceship drive for the starship Heart of Gold in the science fiction story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The infinite improbability drive has been superseded by the Bistromathic drive, based on the alternate math used by waiters in restaurants, which has the advantage of not having improbable side effects or improbable things going wrong.
The most important side effects of infinite improbability travel were that hyperspace express routes became largely obsolete, and that the History department of the university of Maximegalon finally gave up trying to figure out the universe, as completely impossible things were increasingly commonplace.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive   (638 words)

  
 Inside Mac Games: News
Travelling through the squalid surroundings of a Vogon Constructor Fleet spaceship, the swamplands of Squornshellous Zeta, the splendour of the fabled Heart-Of-Gold with it's Infinite-Improbability Drive and the legendary planet constructing depths of Magrathea, Arthur must battle with aliens, solve puzzles and of course, talk with annoying lifts!
And be sure to head over to the update to have a look at the three screen shots,
Some top secret screenshots just slipped from my hard drive!
www.insidemacgames.com /news/index.php?date=2001-09-05   (2489 words)

  
 UGO.com Film/TV - Marvin's Robot Commentary - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I am Marvin, the resident artificial intelligence aboard the Heart of Gold, a spaceship stolen by the President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox.
Here I am, the brain the size of a planet all they want me to do is publicity for this film, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Official Site
www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/hitchhikersguide/marvin.asp   (257 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
He brings them aboard his stolen spaceship, the Heart of Gold, whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android, a severely depressed robot, and Trillian, a woman known by Arthur as the only other surviving human being.
Long ago, the people of Krikkit attempted to wipe out all life in the Universe, but they were stopped and imprisoned on their home planet; now they are poised to escape.
Also, various audio tracks were released to coincide with the movie, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and "Reasons to be Miserable", sung by Stephen Fry, along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-character by Fry.
www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6442 words)

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