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For instance, 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 - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the 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.

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Man, Earth, Dolphin, Intelligence, Reason

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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Final message from the Dolphins, as they escape just prior to Earth's destruction.

Dolphin, Fish, Destruction, Earth, Message

Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind of 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.

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Dolphin, Earth, Mankind, Communication

On Earth � when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass � the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another � particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.

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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001) was a British author and satirist, most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Salmon of Doubt
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Life, the Universe and Everything

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