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The Improbability-proof control cabin of the Heart of Gold looked like aperfectly conventional spaceship except that it was perfectly clean because itwas so new. Some of the control seats hadn't had the plastic wrapping taken offyet. The cabin was mostly white, oblong, and about the size of a smallishrestaurant. In fact it wasn't perfectly oblong: the two long walls were rakedround in a slight parallel curve, and all the angles and corners were contouredin excitingly chunky shapes. The truth of the matter is that it would have beena great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinarythree-dimensional oblong rom, but then the designers would have got miserable.As it was the cabin looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screensranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, andlong banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sathumped, its gleaming brushed steel head hanging loosely between its gleamingbrushed steel knees. It too was fairly new, but though it was beautifullyconstructed and polished it somehow looked as if the various parts of its moreor less humanoid body didn't quite fit properly. In fact they fitted perfectlywell, but something in its bearing suggested that they might have fittedbetter.Zaphod Beeblebrox paced nervously up and down the cabin, brushing his handsover pieces of gleaming equipment and giggling with excitement.Trillian sat hunched over a clump of instruments reading off figures. Her voicewas carried round the Tannoy system of the whole ship.``Five to one against and falling ...'' she said, ``four to one against andfalling ... three to one ... two ... one ... probability factor of one to one... we have normality, I repeat we have normality.'' She turned her microphoneoff --- then turned it back on, with a slight smile and continued: ``Anythingyou still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Please relax. You willbe sent for soon.''Zaphod burst out in annoyance: ``Who are they Trillian?''Trillian span her seat round to face him and shrugged.``Just a couple of guys we seem to have picked up in open space,'' she said.``Section ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.''``Yeah, well that's a very sweet thought Trillian,'' complained Zaphod, ``butdo you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are onthe run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us bynow, and we stop to pick up hitch hikers. OK, so ten out of ten for style, butminus several million for good thinking, yeah?''He tapped irritably at a control panel. Trillian quietly moved his hand beforehe tapped anything important. Whatever Zaphod's qualities of mind might include--- dash, bravado, conceit --- he was mechanically inept and could easily blowthe ship up with an extravagant gesture. Trillian had come to suspect that themain reason why he had had such a wild and successful life that he never reallyunderstood the significance of anything he did.``Zaphod,'' she said patiently, ``they were floating unprotected in open space... you wouldn't want them to have died would you?''``Well, you know ... no. Not as such, but ...''``Not as such? Not die as such? But?'' Trillian cocked her head on one side.``Well, maybe someone else might have picked them up later.''``A second later and they would have been dead.''``Yeah, so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longerit would have gone away.''``You'd been happy to let them die?''``Well, you know, not happy as such, but ...''``Anyway,'' said Trillian, turning back to the controls, ``I didn't pick themup.''``What do you mean? Who picked them up then?''``The ship did.''
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