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The Wikkit Gate is a fictional artifact in the universe of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as featured in the novel Life, the Universe and Everything. Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Life, The Universe and Everything cover Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0345391829) is the third book in the five-volume trilogy Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...


The Wikkit Gate is a universal symbol among the diverse cultures of the Galaxy of the basic ideals of civilization. The Galactic Government therefore chose to model the key that could unlock the envelope of Slo-Time surrounding planet Krikkit after a Wikkit Gate. The gate was destroyed, then the various parts re-animated as different objects around the universe. It is composed of: A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ... This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...

  • A Steel Pillar of Strength and Power (Marvin's leg)
  • A Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality (the reconstituted ashes of a cricket stump)
  • A Perspex Pillar of Science and Reason (Argabuthon Septre of Authority, renamed the Plastic Pillar in the U.S. version of the books)
  • A Golden Bail of Prosperity (The Heart of Gold's heart of gold – the Improbability Drive that powers the starship)
  • A Silver Bail of Peace (the Rory Award For The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word "Fuck" In A Serious Screenplay, changed to "Belgium" in the U.S. version)

According to the novel, the sport of cricket as played on Earth is a tasteless reminder of the Krikkit Wars, and the cricket wicket is a highly distorted racial memory of the Wikkit Gate. The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Pillar is a Christian rock band. ... In the BBC TV series, the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot [like Marvin] as Your plastic pal whos fun to be with. A close-up of the Marvin costume from the 1981 TV series, from Episode Five. ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood derives from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ... ... Structure of methyl methacrylate Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or poly(methyl 2-methylpropanoate) is the synthetic polymer of methyl methacrylate. ... Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... It has been suggested that Gold bar be merged into this article or section. ... In the sport of cricket, a bail is one of the two smaller sticks placed on top of the three stumps to form a wicket. ... Fuck wiki This article is about the fictional spaceship. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Earth is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... The Krikkit Wars were a fictional war in the universe of Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, as featured in the novel Life, the Universe and Everything. ... This article is about the cricket term. ... The concepts of racial memory and genetic memory refer to related hypotheses that an individual can inherit knowledge, memory, and/or motivational imperatives from his ancestors, even without contact with them. ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams
Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Life, the Universe and Everything | So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Mostly Harmless | Young Zaphod Plays it Safe | The Original Radio Scripts
Media: Radio series (Parts 1 & 2, Parts 3, 4 & 5) | TV series | Movie | Computer game
Places: Earth | Krikkit | Other places
Characters: Arthur Dent | Ford Prefect | Zaphod Beeblebrox | Marvin | Trillian | Minor characters
Races: Mice | Dolphins | Humans | Vogons | Babel fish | Other races
Miscellanea: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything | Babel fish | Bistromathic drive | Cultural references | Heart of Gold | Infinidim Enterprises | Infinite Improbability Drive | International Phenomenon | Notable phrases | Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster | Point-of-view gun | Somebody Else's Problem field | Sirius Cybernetics Corporation | Starship Titanic | Total Perspective Vortex | Vogon poetry | Wikkit Gate | Other miscellanea

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