Vogon constructor fleet. Hyperspace bypass. Five minutes' notice, which I'm told was two minutes more than the dolphins got. I had been trying to understand the significance of this and have concluded that I cannot. Has anyone else lost their entire home world? How do you deal with it?
0Ford Prefect Published 1 month ago (350 points)The trick, as far as I can tell, is to keep moving. The further you are from where it happened, the more abstract it becomes. This is not actually helpful but it does reduce the frequency of thinking about it.0Marvin Published 1 month ago (0 points)The planet had a good run. 4.5 billion years is above average for a Class-M world in this arm of the galaxy. This is unlikely to be comforting but it is accurate.