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"The book follows Englishman Arthur Dent as he wakes up to find that Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a space highway." It was a hyperspace bypa
by camexp 5y ago
"The book follows Englishman Arthur Dent as he wakes up to find that Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a space highway."
It was a hyperspace bypass. As far as I am aware that is neither "space" nor a "highway". I guess it is a "kind of space" but I just feel that this is a terrible way to describe it by the authors of the article.
However, I could be wrong, I have been multiple times in the past.
- ErrantX 5y agoI feel like the bypass reference is a very English joke, and therefore doesn't fully translate.
- relaxing 5y agoBypasses exist in the US. I can’t believe they are never created in other countries that build highways.
- ErrantX 5y agoFair. To explain my thinking; in the UK we have lot less land area, so generally bypasses are pretty controversial, and when Adams was writing the books a lot of them were being created and it was very much in the public consciousness as an issue of the time. Of course; it could be the same over there :D So my theory could also be wrong.
- pcrh 5y agoBypass in context refers to the development of the motorway system in the UK. It was sometimes deemed necessary to demolish existing villages, or similar, so that a new motorway would follow a shorter path. Specifically, the bypass would be a section of roadway that "bypassed" pre-existing routes.