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	Infinite Improbability Drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In describing the invention of the drive, Douglas Adams exemplifies the principle of bootstrapping.
		The infinite improbability drive has been superseded by the Bistromathic drive, based on the alternate math used by waiters in restaurants, which has the advantage of not having improbable side effects or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 Infinite Improbability Drive is sometimes compared with a similar concept in the fiction of Stanisław Lem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive (1114 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Infinite Improbability Drive is the spaceship drive for the starship Heart of Gold in the comic science fiction story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
		The Guide itself explains that generating finite levels of improbability using an electronic brain and a cup of hot tea was very well understood, but that scientists lacked the means to create a drive that could produce the infinite improbability field required to allow a ship to travel anywhere instantaneously.
		It is the infinite improbability drive in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which saves Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from certain death by asphyxiation in deep space after being kicked out of the Vogon ship.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Heart_of_Gold (524 words)

	Infinite improbability drive - Uncyclopedia
		The infinite improbability drive is one of the most predictable, probable devices in the universe.
		The Infinite improbability drive first came to young Douglas as he was lying on a meadow at night, piss drunk, with toilet paper in hand.
		The Infinite Improbability Drive uses a series of operations used in Bistromathics, and by using the leftover spaghetti sauce, produces energy.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Infinite_improbability_drive (323 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Infinite Improbability Drive is the spaceship drive forthe starship Heart of Gold in the comic science fiction story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
		It is the infinite improbability drive in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which saves Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect fromcertain death by asphyxiation in deep space after being kicked out of the Vogon ship.
		The infinite improbability drive has been superseded by the Bistromathic drive, based on the alternate math used by waiters in restaurants, which has the advantage of not havingimprobable side effects or improbable things going wrong.
	www.therfcc.org /infinite-improbability-drive-153813.html (409 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unfortunately human beings are accustomed to travelling at normality (probability 1:1), and can be fairly distressed by events around them whilst the improbability drive is working: losing limbs, turning into penguins, planets spontaneously becoming fruitcakes, nuclear missiles metamorphosing into sperm whales and bowls of petunias (this one happened only in the film), and so forth.
		The Bistromathic drive is more maneuverable than the Heart of Gold, but it seems that the Heart of Gold is still the faster of the two drives.
		The Infinite Improbability Drive was invented following research into finite improbability which was often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess' undergarments leap one foot simutaneously to the left in accordance with the theory of indeterminancy.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Infinite_Improbability_Drive (1082 words)

	Bistromathic drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bistromathic Drive is a starship propulsion system in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
		It is introduced in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book of the series.
		The Bistromathic Drive is used in Slartibartfast's craft Starship Bistromath and works by exploiting the irrational mathematics that apply to numbers on a waiter's cheque pad and groups of people in restaurants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bistromathic_drive (339 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Guide itself explains that generating finite levels improbability using an electronic brain and a of hot tea was very well understood that scientists lacked the means to create drive that could produce the infinite improbability required to allow a ship to travel instantaneously.
		It is the infinite improbability drive in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which saves Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from certain death by asphyxiation in space after being kicked out of the Vogon ship.
		The infinite improbability drive has been superseded the Bistromathic drive based on the alternate math used waiters in restaurants which has the advantage of not improbable side effects or improbable things going
	www.freeglossary.com /The_starship_Heart_of_Gold (698 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive by Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Technovelgy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Infinite Improbability Drive by Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at Technovelgy.com
		There is a lot more material on this piece of technovelgy; however, you should certainly go to the source to read it - on the odd chance that you haven't actually read this book.
		However improbable, there is a precursor to this idea; see the Probability Time Wave Tube from Elimination, a 1936 short story by John W. Campbell, Jr.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=134 (314 words)

	Hitchhiker's Guide review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		IID allows a spaceship to cross vast reaches of interstellar space in a mere nothing of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
		The improbability drive brought the Heart of Gold to them because the scientific notation for the odds of their survival exactly matched Trillian’s phone number on Earth, where she had met Arthur at a party before she was swept off her feet by Zaphod ("I’m from a different planet.
		The improbability factors were so high that the spaceship detoured and snatched them out of raw space.
	www.wyldcard.org /Hitchhiker.html (1892 words)

	GaianXaos: X-Talks
		This uncountably infinite dimensional basis of the cosmic superdynamic is the singular momentary illumination of All That Is, and originates beyond all fields of time-space.
		Indeed, self reflections of this infinite source, cast along various dimensions of being, generate the very fabric of reality and the structure of time-space.
		It is now also theoretically possible to consider the likelihood that these infinite levels of nested probabilistic systems are integral aspects of one infinite dimensional superspace system.
	www.gaianxaos.com (1015 words)

	sciforums.com - Infinitly Improbable
		The infinite improbability drive is based on the principal that it is infinitly improbable, not impossible, that we can exist in all of the possible positions of the first four dimensions simultaneously.
		That being the case, we can be selective of where we are when we deactivate the drive and become statistical 1 from say statistical 0.0000001 (infinite improbability).
		Moving away form the subject of quanta for a short time, perhaps describing the mathematical attribute of probability as d5 is not the most accurate way of describing it's relation to d1-4, but it was the most succinct that I could think of in a couple of minutes.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=4819 (830 words)

	Infinite Improbability Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast intersteller distances in a mere nothingth of a second without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
		Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually imposssible.
		He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generater out of thin air.
	www.earthstar.co.uk /drive.htm (295 words)

	Interstellar Travel, According to H2G2 \| Scott Yang’s Playground
		Infinite Improbability Drive — as equipped on the Heart of Gold (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).
		It is based on some kind of quantum physics — a particle is more “probable”; to be found in a particular space, but there also exists a very small probability that it can be found elsewhere in the universe.
		What the Infinite Improbability Drive does, however, is to produce that infinite improbability field, which makes spaceship appears in two locations in ever increasing probability.
	scott.yang.id.au /2005/11/interstellar-travel-according-to-h2g2 (392 words)

	infinite improbability drive
		From the broadened perspective of infinite time and space, all universes are constantly arising and being dissolved much like the bubbles in a turbulent ocean.
		There exists an uncountably infinite number of alternate realities which exist simultaneously along independant dimensions; the intersection (source/destination) of all these world lines is the the Infinite Now.
		Holistic Science in the B.S. is an uncountably infinite dimensional field of pure infinite possibility.
	www.gaianxaos.com /neo_systems_theory.htm (129 words)

	Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
		Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.
		He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Hitchhikers/00000021.htm (311 words)

	infinite improbability drive and the script writer
		He said that he had a hard time on how to explain the infinite improbability drive and I got afraid if he didn't get it at all.
		As I understand it the infinite improbabilty drive is a very sane machine - as sane it can be in a sci-fi novel -.
		I mean, it's all logical to me on how it works and how it can be explained so that remark of his "I don't know how to explain it" made me scared if it's totally ruined.
	www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/messages/172111.html (230 words)

	Heart of Gold - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was built as a secret government project on planet Damogran from where Zaphod Beeblebrox, the then-President of the Imperial Galactic Government, stole it at the launching ceremony.
		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.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Heart_of_Gold (411 words)

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		The third reason, however, is that the side-effects of improbability travel are so hideous and tortuous that the anticipated level of public protest at its use was thought to be unacceptable.
		The curious tendency for the side-effects of Infinite Improbability Travel to manifest themselves in a narratively coherent way have been seen by some as signs of Something Going On, and therefore have been seized upon by Oolon Colluphid as hard evidence of Nothing Going On.
		Consequently, it was almost inevitable that a micro-Infinite Improbability Drive (foreground, on the Bambolweeny 57's operator console) would turn up mysteriously one day after a particularly bewildering test session on the main Drive.
	www.ripe-fruit.co.uk /drawings/hitch/heartofgold.shtml (879 words)

	Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Weird Science - The Infinate Improbability Drive
		The principal of generating finite amounts of improbability are so bloody obvious that I wont go into them here.
		So, the student geezer calculated the probability (or improbability) and fed the answer into an improbability generator (that was just lying around), and made a nice cup of hot tea, and turned it on!
		This ship is probably the most technically advanced piece of machinery in the Galaxy and costs a mere 5,000,000 Arterian MegaDollars (a megadollar is the equivalent, in terms of pounds, to a page full of zero’s with a 1 in front of it).
	www.sadgeezer.com /hhg/i-drive.htm (385 words)

	Serebella Contents Infinite descending chain---Infinite Improbability Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To move something by hitting it with great force.
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Drive".
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Infinite".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-206593-206596-Infinite_descending_chain-Infinite_Improbability_Drive.html (503 words)

	Peak Oil News and Message Boards Forums >> Post 31503 >> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is the infinite improbability drive from the "Hitchhikers guide through the galaxy" by Douglas Adams.
		It starts with the premises that it is highly unlikely that the atoms of a spaceship would suddenly jump to another side of the galaxy and rearrange themselves to form the same spaceship.
		The improbability drive reverses the levels of probability so that extremely unlikely events suddenly become very likely.
	www.peakoil.com /post31503.html (1511 words)

	Applelinks.com: Abacus
		If one could compute the exact improbability of such event, then it could be made to happen.
		A side effect of all this improbable physics was the generation of an improbability field that caused the infinitely improbable to occur every time it was used.
		He pulled you out of this crazy, improbable, unfunny, earthbound world and plopped you down into his crazy, improbable, funny one, and when you turned the last page you found yourself simply grateful that he had written it.
	www.applelinks.com /abacus/douglas_adams.shtml (1207 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book Report) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is powered by an Infinite Improbability Drive, which lets the ship pass through every point in every universe simultaneously.
		Thanks to the Heart of Gold’s Infinite Improbability Drive, Arthur and Ford are rescued (due to the improbability of such an event occurring).
		The two narrowly escape death in deep space through the mysterious workings of the Infinite Improbability Drive, which powers the starship Heart of Gold.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/6293.php (1327 words)

	Long film review part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Infinite Improbability Drive, in this version of the story, isn’t some supremely efficient propulsion system but is a device which takes the ship to completely random places, although fortunately they are all places where the cast need to be in order for the plot to happen.
		Going in and out of Infinite Improbability causes the Heart of Gold to change itself into a quick series of other random items.
		When the last of these is a giant ball of wool we get a very brief scene of the crew as stop-motion knitted dollies (available now in a Disney Store near you, by a lucky coincidence) and when the last item is a flower the crew are seen brushing petals from their faces.
	planetmagrathea.com /longreview1.html (1907 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It mattered little to him that the Heart of Gold, with its Infinite Improbability Drive, was the most beautiful and revolutionary ship ever built.
		There was nothing it couldn't do, provided you knew exactly how improbable it was that the thing you wanted it to do would ever happen.
		The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small." "Hey, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, man, you know," muttered Zaphod trying to flap the last remnants of his ego.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /~dave/hhgttg/rest.txt (20973 words)

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