The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: p. 47-113
Again what an amazing turn of events, the for some odd reason Adams likes to flip the script alot. Seconds before the Earth explodes, Ford shows his true self and gets a lift from a Vogon spaceship. To me the events are truely impossible and would never happen. But if you believe then anything is possible. (I don't believe in such a thing, I spend my time working on all sorts of different projects.) The way that Arthur and Ford actually get a lift is through some type of blinding light emiting from Ford's thumb, much like a hitchhiker on the side of the road trying to flag down some driver. What an amazing thing to do, seconds before KABOOM, and the two get out alive. Now, I know that Adams likes to flip the story around but I sort of seen that one coming. You cannot kill your main character, the idea is just ludricis. Well maybe you can but not before the last chapther, in a climatic finish. Otherwise the book would lose all meaning, who would the book follow. They actually get picked up by a Vogon spaceship, but the only problem is they were not let on by the Vogons. The Vogon cooks let them on, just for the reason to make the Vogons angry. It is not Ford's fault but being picked by anyone else would probably better. The first reaction of ship's captian is to find the intruders and throw them off his ship. Now the only problem is they are no longer on planet Earth both will die either from the vaccuum effect of being thrown out of a ship, or the lack of oxygen in outer space. In the end the whole idea of being thrown out a spaceship is not real, but to connect it to real life it is very possible to be thrown out of a moving car, by choice or under force from someone else.
If your faced with the predicement of being thrown off a spaceship, what could you to actually keep yourself on the ship? (I suggest becoming the cook, but the only problem is I don't know what aliens like to eat.)
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I feel the same way you do about that , it's IMPOSSIBLE.
If I were faced with the prospect of being thrown from a ship, I'd probably act like a space technician and inform the superiors that their flux capacitor was in critical danger. That usually works.
i would hide by the cook in till we got to a new plant if they tossed me out of the ship who cares im on a new plant
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