@@nightw4tchman What does something 'drawn by hand' look like?! I'm guessing you've never seen any of Leonardo da Vinci's technical drawings or the original blue prints for Westminster Cathedral.
As a kid that loved HHGTTG when it was first broadcast on TV, I marvelled at the wonderfulI technology (such as the electronic guide itself) they had in the show. I cannot tell you how surreal it is watching these animated guide sequences on our own electronic devices (the Internet etc) these many years later. Thanks for the upload.
@@valem1931 Yes, of course I do, that's why I said I know it's just comedy. The part about God negating his own existence by centering it around faith instead of fact is what makes it so strong because it's still a very reasonable argument to make.
The Babel fish is a double edged sword. On one hand you can understand any language, and on the other hand you can understand cows while you're milking them.
It's funny that if theologians are disputing this, it means some still believe in God. So all we know is God did exist at one point, and he may or may not have vanished in a puff of logic, but the conditions required for his existence are currently present, so who's to say he doesn't still exist?
I can imagine a religious person watching this with their children and then quickly turning the TV off and telling their children to forget everything they heard.
There is a difference betwin being relligious and being a idiot how can't take a joke! I, as a christian person myself, really love all HHGG jokes, because there a meant to being funny, not to bring a point home!
Well it IS kind of a dig against some of the more absurd "absolute proofs of the existence of god" that some religious people come up with. Something like this for example: "The first ontological argument in the Western Christian tradition was proposed by Anselm of Canterbury in his 1078 work Proslogion. Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought", and argued that this being must exist in the mind, even in the mind of the person who denies the existence of God. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality. If it only exists in the mind, then an even greater being must be possible-one which exists both in the mind and in reality. Therefore, this greatest possible being must exist in reality." Of course most educated religious people would recognize the absurdity of such an argument. ;)
reminds me of ideas on "Creation". "If a complex system, there has to be a creator". A computer is a complex system, so there has to be a creator. Humanity is a complex system, so it has to have a creator.
@@logfire4628 it isn't mocking one side, it's mocking both. because the argument itself is so absurd, it not only assumes that atheists will go to any lengths to prove god exists, but also that even the most absurd arguments can be used to prove god doesn't exist as the arguments in favor are all based on faith. and the logic holds up, because if you prove god is a liar, then you have proven god doesn't exist as he is portrayed, which really means that a different god exists, and thus the god christians worship doesn't. of course, all this is really nonsense with the existence of the improbability drive, since at any moment the improbable likelihood that the babel fish would just pop into existence anywhere at any time due to the drive being used becomes likely, especially given the less likely something is to happen the greater the chances it will when the drive is on.
Every single frame of the computer was hand drawn. Every single one. Amazing.
They won the BAFTA for it in 1982!
Well you guys will really flip watching Disney’s 1950 Cinderella then if you’re amazed by that animation.
@@jamesa6693 Yes but, that, we know is done by hand. This doesn't look like it was done by hand.
@@jamesa6693 that was a massive movie production ,besides this still looks more complex
@@nightw4tchman
What does something 'drawn by hand' look like?!
I'm guessing you've never seen any of Leonardo da Vinci's technical drawings or the original blue prints for Westminster Cathedral.
As a kid that loved HHGTTG when it was first broadcast on TV, I marvelled at the wonderfulI technology (such as the electronic guide itself) they had in the show.
I cannot tell you how surreal it is watching these animated guide sequences on our own electronic devices (the Internet etc) these many years later. Thanks for the upload.
I know it's supposed to be comedy, but this is honestly one of the most straightforward and logical arguments for atheism I've ever heard.
You do know that the bable fish isn't real, right?
@@valem1931 Yes, of course I do, that's why I said I know it's just comedy. The part about God negating his own existence by centering it around faith instead of fact is what makes it so strong because it's still a very reasonable argument to make.
Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead, and we have killed him.
Oolon Colluphid: God is dead, and we got rid of him with a puff of logic.
1:39 *Communication is the single greatest cause of war and death!*
Yes, and thanks for all the fish.
Fun fact: A LEGO fish piece looks strikingly simular to the HGTTG Babel Fish.
Fun fact: it doesn’t work in the same way.
😊❤❤❤great tv show
*The faith in the Bible isn't a blind faith. It's a faith built on reason (1 Peter 3:15).*
Yes.
The 'reason' being that there is no proof or sustainable logic.
I want to genetically engineer a Babel Fish. This would be fun.
I wonder if the Babelfish is what inspired the translator microbes from Farscape.
Screw Google Translate! I want to buy Babelfish for $100.
I would think the babelfish would make life infinitely easier for humans at least.
I know I'd have a use for one.
I would put the Babel fish on my dingus
The Babel fish is a double edged sword. On one hand you can understand any language, and on the other hand you can understand cows while you're milking them.
@@flareblade1420hahahaha
Sounds like Douglas Adams, yeah.
It's funny that if theologians are disputing this, it means some still believe in God. So all we know is God did exist at one point, and he may or may not have vanished in a puff of logic, but the conditions required for his existence are currently present, so who's to say he doesn't still exist?
BABEL FISH TEST:
glunklegrumph slurpglurg snuggle flitch grungefuthock oomfslup flimphlesnook aargh glumf eeklphlurge poofle shnuk
Hex Luther not picking up your brain waves, I'm afraid
No you can’t have any of my surplus crystal pepsi, you had your chance.
You’re writing in section 31 cypher, no ordinary fish can translate that
a load of dingos kidneys
As a religious person, I actually find this very entertaining, despite what you assumed.
I can imagine a religious person watching this with their children and then quickly turning the TV off and telling their children to forget everything they heard.
There is a difference betwin being relligious and being a idiot how can't take a joke! I, as a christian person myself, really love all HHGG jokes, because there a meant to being funny, not to bring a point home!
Well it IS kind of a dig against some of the more absurd "absolute proofs of the existence of god" that some religious people come up with. Something like this for example:
"The first ontological argument in the Western Christian tradition was proposed by Anselm of Canterbury in his 1078 work Proslogion. Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought", and argued that this being must exist in the mind, even in the mind of the person who denies the existence of God. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality. If it only exists in the mind, then an even greater being must be possible-one which exists both in the mind and in reality. Therefore, this greatest possible being must exist in reality." Of course most educated religious people would recognize the absurdity of such an argument. ;)
reminds me of ideas on "Creation". "If a complex system, there has to be a creator". A computer is a complex system, so there has to be a creator. Humanity is a complex system, so it has to have a creator.
@@dmenor11ification
Wish that was still true
I wish they’d kept the whole schpiel in the film
0:35
And many Atheists (including myself) rejoiced immensely
Dude, this is mocking atheism. You have to acknowledge God exists to prove that he "doesn't."
@@logfire4628 .......nice......thats either sarcastic or dumb and i cant tell which one
@@logfire4628 it isn't mocking one side, it's mocking both.
because the argument itself is so absurd, it not only assumes that atheists will go to any lengths to prove god exists, but also that even the most absurd arguments can be used to prove god doesn't exist as the arguments in favor are all based on faith.
and the logic holds up, because if you prove god is a liar, then you have proven god doesn't exist as he is portrayed, which really means that a different god exists, and thus the god christians worship doesn't.
of course, all this is really nonsense with the existence of the improbability drive, since at any moment the improbable likelihood that the babel fish would just pop into existence anywhere at any time due to the drive being used becomes likely, especially given the less likely something is to happen the greater the chances it will when the drive is on.
Well, technically this is actually the third version.
The original was on radio, then the book, then the tv adaptation.
Great vid!
Brilliant
This device has now been invented!!!
Is this version available in a full-length movie?
Call that job satisfaction because I don't.
Devon hendryx?
I can't help but feel as if this segment was made purely to trigger monotheistic-religious people.
Did you record this with the butt-fish?
No, the quality really is just this bad. It was the 70s, after all
1981. ;)
"the quality really is this bad"
DVD & Blu-Ray renditions of the series: *ahem*
FIRST COMMENT MUAHAHAHA
Yeah, but that was three years ago. Still living off that glory?