An improbable tribute for Towel Day

“Space”, Douglas Adams observed in his classic series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.” So, in his fictional universe, he invented the Infinite Improbability Drive as a way of crossing its vast distances in a nothingth of a second. And, in one memorable passage, to convert two approaching nuclear missiles into a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale. Thus, today’s image of the Earth’s largest toothed whale is our tribute to Adams on the 20th annual celebration of Towel Day (it’s surprisingly difficult to find a really great image of a bowl of petunias).
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