Timeline for Questions about the Infinite Improbability Drive?
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | user22672 | The book does not explain why some things persist and why some don't. I took it to be whether the thing summoned is inherently unlikely and is, therefore, returned to normal when things become normal (like an infinite number of intellegent monkeys typing hamlet can't really exist). Alternatively the event that summoned it is unlikely but the object itself isn't inherently improbable (such as the hitchhikers or a different redecoration) so an unlikely event would be needed to remove them. Likely which category each fits into is soley dependant on usefullness to the plot and humor. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:02 | comment | added | Beatrix | i don't really get what you mean by #6. Care to delve deeper? | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 15:33 | comment | added | user22672 | I don't have a book I can copy available but every example (besides the coins) I used is canon. The computer counts down (and i think up) to whatever improbability they are currently at. The sources used in the other answer (which is correct but doesn't answer Mr. Poe Quoter's question as to how the drive works) support my explanation of the hitchikers being collected at a specific improbability. A quote I can't fully remember from Zaphod said how the 7 digit phone number probability was too low for where they were at so the event had to be more improbable for some reason. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 15:23 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Canon support?? | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 15:04 | history | answered | user22672 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |