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Who would've guessed the earth is something different entirely?

There you are, at the entrance of the vast tract of hyperspace your companion Slartibartfast warns you it might disturb you. And then adds entirely reassuringly it scares the willies out of him.

What do you do?
A. Freeze;
B. Look for the willies that scared your companion;
C. Hyperventilate;
D. Try and take a selfie of yourself in hyperspace;

Why are they so very mean to the spaceship? That spaceship didn't do anything wrong. The door is happy to open for you and the computer on the bridge just wants to be pals
It doesn't take much to be kind.

Want to understand what the alien race of 200 lightyears away say? Put a small yellow fish in your ear.

The annotations in this book are hilarious (and remind me of Good omens, or was this book first?). "The other kids at school nicknamed him lx, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as 'boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.""
Must be a heavy burden to get at school.

So in the Beeblebrox’s reception committee are several members to greet him on the isle of France, amongst them is a Hooloovoo. A Hooloovoo is a super intelligent shade of the colour blue.
Are there other several super intelligent colours? Do they vary in intelligence score from latest to darkest? And which one is the dumbest colour? Or might there be some shades of all kinds of colours that are like the dumbest?

Ford Perfect is very very persuasive. To let someone voluntarily lie down in the mud when that person was on the opposite side of the argument is impressive.
What would you do with that much persuasiveness?