I just found this on an old external drive. I wanted to turn this into a fake tour merchandise shirt but never got round to do it.
Now, I'm not really sure if I looked up all the planets in the books or just invented some.
So, do you have suggestions? Ideas, which places to add? Which to delete? Bury the whole file in soft peat for three months and recycle it as a firelighter? (I would have to print it first...)
"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless."
I've always loved this quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yet it took me countless readings of the books and listens to the radio series before I connected it to one of my favourite characters of all time: Ford Prefect, absent-mindedly staring up at the night sky.
From Earth, he can see Betelgeuse, his home system.
He knows exactly how far away it is: Six million light-years.
But the number doesn't help. It's still so zarking far away. It could be a thousand miles and yet it would still be out of reach.