The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Throughout the Compilers Design course we've been reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I found the book quite interesting because I've listen to several references of this book in many sci-fi TV Series.

The story goes around Arthur Dent who happened to be the only earthling left after Earth's destruction by the Vogons, with the help of  Ford Prefect he manages to scape and his journey begins.

He meets Zaphod Beeblebrox aka The President of the Galaxy which goal is to find Magrathea, an ancient planet which build custom planets. In the way to this planet it is revealed that there was a machine millions of years ago which was supposed to give the ultimate answer to the universe. When the time has come the machines gives the result which happen to be 42. The machine "Deep-thought" explains that they don't know how to interpret the the answer because they never knew the question, so it prints the plains to build a new machine that can give the question to the given answer. this machine turns out to be the Earth, but ironically was destroyed seconds before it gave the question.

Eventually they found Magrathea and discover they're rebuilding planet Earth, but since one earthling continues alive, they can dissect his brain and get the questions, forcing them to flee.

In general it was a good book, but I wasn't expecting it to be comic. I understand why it is so popular in the sci-fi universes, it has a lot of important elements in the space story-telling like ships and aliens which ironically happen to be similar to us.