《Mostly Harmless (Hitchhikers Guide 5) 》作者：- Douglas Adams 【EPUB】

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Mostly Harmless Anything that happens happens. Anything that in happening causes something else to happen causes something else to happen. Anything that in happening causes itself to happen again happens again. It doesnt necessarily do it in chronological order though. 1 The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled for a number of reasons: partly becausethose who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled but also because some verymuddling things have been happening anyway. One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in tryingto exceed it. You cant. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possibleexception of bad news which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of ArkintoofleMinor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didnt workparticularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that therewasnt really any point in being there. So by and large the peoples of the Galaxy tended to languish in their own local muddles andthe history of the Galaxy itself was for a long time largely cosmological. Which is not to say that people werent trying. They tried sending off fleets of spaceships todo battle or business in distant parts but these usually took thousands of years to getanywhere. By the time they eventually arrived other forms of travel had been discovered whichmade use of hyperspace to circumvent the speed of light so that whatever battles it was thatthe slower-than-light fleets had been sent to fight had already been taken care of centuriesearlier by the time they actually got there . This didnt of course deter their crews from wanting to fight the battles anyway. They weretrained they were ready theyd had a couple of thousand years sleep