Talk:Infinite Improbability Drive
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Personally I feel you're better off quoting from HHGG rather than paraphrasing it - it comes off sounding very lame. Sorry. GRAHAMUK 07:57, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)
In this case, I think it would be risky. Quoting a sentence or two is allowed by copyright laws, but chunks such as the definition of the improbability drive are very probably large enough to be protected. then again I may be wrong; in any case, the article is there to be edited, so by all means do! Dave 08:15, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I revised the para that somebody had changed to remove the word 'smart-ass" - I also filled it out a bit so it makes some sort of sense to those who may not have heard the series or read the book. In this context, smart-ass is not an obscenity (is it in anyone's universe???), but is the term actually used in the HHGG. GRAHAMUK 22:49, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- I removed the 'smart-ass'. I still object to the use of 'ass'. It's still not the kind of word that, say, the Encyclopedia Brittanica would use, and that's the one we're trying to supercede here, isn't it? -- Gaurav 10:02, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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- If it's used in the book, it should be quoted. Dysprosia 10:04, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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- BTW, "ass" is in the Encyclopedia Britannica (though as a reference to donkeys, not as a derogatory word. Even so, this is an encyclopedia. It would be better to discuss the removal of part of a quote, or at least mention here your reasoning. Hans404 22:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
If anyone's got the books handy, can you confirm whether it's Bistromatic or Bistromathic? I think it's the latter (Bistro + Maths), but Google turns up plenty of links for each. -- Darac 10:17, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- It is definitely "Bistromathic", based, iddly, on Bistromathics not Bistromaths (Life Universe and Everything ch 7). Maybe Adams thought Bistromaths were persons not a discipline. PS: the ship was named Bistromath (ch 32) 142.177.21.167 19:57, 7 May 2004 (UTC) for the pedantic
- The starship Heart of Gold was somewhat insulated against this by having an improbability-proof drive room, allowing the pilots to remain more or less normal during the flight.
I don't remember this. Morwen - Talk 11:44, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Did that actually happen? I don't remember that either. Maybe I shoud read the book again? - Jason
Where did "Improbability Physics in the Real World" section come from? Especially the bit about the guy from oxford... It should have a reference if it going to be included. 66.102.196.35 09:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't even find a Dr. William Baker on the Oxford Physics Dept staff, let alone the whole of Oxford's staff. Deleted.
[edit] Copyright here
The first two paragraphs of the 'History' section here is copied directly, if inaccruately (See comment in article) from the book. I'm not keen on this...is it still a copyright violation if the excerpt is incorrect? Anyone here to comment?Gekedo 14:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
