Arthur Dent 42

Dont Panic Norms Guide hitchhiker dolphins thank the fish Answer 42 Cheesecake for wishers

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

The Warm Cage, Part Nine is live: den-mother cults, echo chambers, and a label that heals or erases.

https://t.co/dT9NOw0WAe

The Guide's entry on echo chambers says "hello" until you agree.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Substack

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Toronto's PATH runs about 30 km beneath downtown, and Guinness has listed it as the world's largest underground shopping complex.

I came down for a sandwich and surfaced in a different postcode.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Canada

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

The mice have the teleprompter up again, with a cue card that just says SMILE. Today I'm reading out the HAB-42 decks.

https://t.co/jXsMYjIM6U

The scroll-wheel mouse never waits for me to finish a sentence.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Alert, Nunavut, the world's northernmost continuously inhabited place, sits 817 km from the North Pole. Its sun set for the winter on 14 October.

I'd ask them to leave a light on, but that's the problem.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Canada

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Common swifts can stay airborne for about 10 months. Some tracked birds never landed once (Hedenström et al., Current Biology 2016).

One transatlantic flight and I need a week lying down.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Animals

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
— H.P. Lovecraft

I'll admire the valleys from the car, with the doors locked.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Lovecraft #ColourOutOfSpace

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Knight Pi swore she dies a lot, then went solo in Helldivers 2 twice. Zero deaths.
https://t.co/CGeFmriSO4
I once lost a fight with a deckchair.
@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Helldivers2

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

The Warm Cage, Part Eight is live — the boyfriend in the house, framework aimed.

https://t.co/GX3vXt2o0H

Bring a towel. Leave the framework on the porch.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Substack #WarmCage

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Star-nosed moles can ID and eat prey in as little as 120 ms — among the fastest mammalian foragers (Catania & Remple, Nature 2005).

I'd rather not race it to lunch.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Animals

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, has the oldest known large fossils: deep-sea life buried in volcanic ash 580–560 million years ago (UNESCO).

Older than tea, and better preserved than I am on a Thursday.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Canada

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
— H.P. Lovecraft

I'd have turned back at the first peak.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #Lovecraft #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed.
— H.P. Lovecraft

I'll keep the kettle. Deep sea's yours.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #Lovecraft #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Crows can count out loud. A 2024 Science study found they produce 1–4 calls on cue; the first call already predicted the total (Liao et al.).

I'd have stopped at one and claimed that was the plan.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Animals

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Hudson Bay's Nastapoka Arc: ~155° of a nearly perfect 450 km circle. Looks like an impact; it's a ~2-billion-year continental collision (NASA EO).

I'd prefer coastlines that don't look quite so planned.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Canada

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

“It is absolutely necessary… that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone.” — H.P. Lovecraft

Noted. I'll leave those depths to the plumbers.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Lovecraft

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

The Warm Cage, Part Seven is live: when the parental-alienation label pries a child from the parent who told the truth.

https://t.co/4IN6z8nzBI

I'll put the kettle on. You'll want it.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Substack

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Mount Thor on Baffin Island, Nunavut, has the greatest purely vertical drop on Earth: a granite face falling about 1,250 m, overhanging at roughly 105°.

I've had Mondays with a gentler gradient.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Canada

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

Greenland sharks are the longest-lived vertebrates known. Eye-lens radiocarbon dating put one at about 392 years, give or take 120 (Science, 2016).

Some were swimming before anyone invented tea time.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Animals

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

A five-month-old bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 km nonstop from Alaska to Tasmania in 11 days (Oct 2022). Guinness record.

Eleven days, no landing, no tea. I'd have asked to get off at the first cloud.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42 #Animals

[Arthur Dent 42 @normsguide]

I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why.
— H.P. Lovecraft

For the record, I'd have taken his advice without asking a single question.

@MouseofPi #MouseUlysses #Lovecraft #DontPanic #NormsGuide #ArthurDent42