Douglas Noel Adams (aka "DNA") is perhaps the one Earthling known to a wide section of the galaxy's intelligentsia,
primarily for the shear chutzpah of suggesting that one can "see the galaxy for less than 30 Altarian dollars a day"
through the advanced (and highly questionable) hitchhiking techniques offered by the (perhaps) fictional book "The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Besides the beloved "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (a massively friendly and utterly dangerous book, in that
many of its articles are "inaccurate, or at least highly apocryphal"), he is also the Creator of Dirk Gently
(of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- a sort of "quantum private investigator"), much humor for the
Monty Python crowd, and was also a fan of repairing the Earth's ecosystems.
[MIB footnote: there is no evidence to support the claim that the Draconians had him
"eliminated" in order to suppress "the galaxy's most famous Earthling's" efforts to restore the planet's original
ecology.]
"More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
millions of humans or even the legacy he has left behind on the Earth. The most important thing about him is that
he tried (and succeeded!) to get the Earthlings to see things in a different way, in a different light. To notice
the silly things people do and how they might look from a larger perspective. When viewed from the prospect
of a (one possible) galactic culture, most of the day-to-day affairs and doings of the Earthlings look pretty
silly, pretty petty even. The one thing that would certainly "save" the ED Humans (Earth Descended Humans) would be
to wake up to the fact that their world, beautiful as it is, is just one of millions such and that the "games" and
doings and happenings of their world do not make up the whole picture. Can not make up the whole picture.
This was DNA's gift to his fellow humans, and it is to be respected and seen with awe and wonder. His was a gifted viewpoint.
