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• HOW TO LEAVE THE PLANET 1. Phone NASA. Their phone number is (731) 483-3111.
  Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible....
• There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
  Pick a nice day and try it. The first part is easy....
• consult guide about Douglas Adams The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  Mostly harmless. -- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• It'll all end in tears, I know it. -- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• That is what you always say. -- J., The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• How do you feel?" "Like a military academy; bits of me keep on passing out.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• consult guide about matter transference beams A thoroughly unpleasant means of travelling which involves tearing you apart in once place and slamming you back together in another.
  (Of course, it's better than the older method, where disassembled people would be transmitted down phone lines and arrive in a garbled and sometimes completely disconnected state....
• Dark, no light. -- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy