The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (2nd post)

“It is most gratifying,” it said, “that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives…. Thank you.”

One of the best ways to deal with a bad situation is to respond to the bad situations with calm respectful tones, and perhaps a nice complement at the end. Douglas Adams realized this and did the guys on Magrathea, the planet that is launching the nuclear warheads. If you have never tried it, it works wonders. The person you are against usually louses some of there vitality and vigor when you give them respect that they weren’t expecting.
Another thing I enjoy about it, is having a dead planet for five million years that still has fully armed and operational nuclear warheads. After a wile you would think that they would go out of commission from parts going bad or being destroyed. Also, why is it that Douglas Adams rote the weapons in a nuclear warheads? Shouldn’t on this new age great planet, at least in its day, have something stronger like a Death Star? The conclusion I come to is the time period we live in. To us, nuclear warheads are among the strongest weapons we have. When the book was written, America was still heavily involved in the cold war. The big thing we were afraid of was the threat of an atomic attack. He was really able to hit home when writing this. Even if there was or is something greater out there, nuclear warheads have the biggest effect on the mind of the audience.