There are some jokes in the Hitchhiker's trilogy that are hard to get, but this one from the Restaurant took me the longest:
"Did you know," interrupting the ghostly figure, fixing Zaphod with a stern look, "that Betelgeuse Five has developed a very slight eccentricy in its orbit?"
So DNA was just joking about the impeding nova, giving a clue in the disturbances it would cause in its planets' orbits.
Finally! (Score:2)
There are some jokes in the Hitchhiker's trilogy that are hard to get, but this one from the Restaurant took me the longest:
"Did you know," interrupting the ghostly figure, fixing Zaphod with a stern look, "that Betelgeuse Five has developed a very slight eccentricy in its orbit?"
So DNA was just joking about the impeding nova, giving a clue in the disturbances it would cause in its planets' orbits.
Shit, I feel dumb.