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The End is Nigh

BBC news article Dolphin spectacle baffles experts reports,

“A group of up to 2,000 common dolphins has been spotted off the coast of west Wales. Marine experts said it was ‘massively unusual’ to see so many off the Pembrokeshire coast, and the reason remained a mystery.”

Anyone who’s familiar with the late Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts) will no doubt immediately recognise the apparent strange behaviour is, in fact, a warning by second most intelligent lifeform on earth (the mouse being the most intelligent) of the imminent destruction of our planet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. From The Guide,

“On the planet earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.

“Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger; but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived.”

For those who are less well versed in the inter-galactic hitchhiking parlance, let me put it to you plainly – got your towels ready, our days on Earth are numbered.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 at 02.03 and is filed under C'est la Vie, Goings-On . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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