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It'll have to go

In Chapter 10 of Douglas Adam's Life, the Universe, and Everything we meet the people of Krikkit whose home planet and sun are surrounded by a dust cloud that blocks their view of the rest of the universe, and in this scene they are flying their first spaceship out past the cloud:

History was gathering itself to deliver another blow.

Still the darkness thrummed at them, the blank enclosing darkess. It seemed closer and closer, thicker and thicker, heavier and heavier. And suddenly it was gone.

They flew out of the cloud.

They saw the staggering jewels of the night in their infinite dust and their minds sang with fear.

For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round.

"It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.

On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, familiy life and the obliteration of all other life forms.

Posted by Sam Ruby on 2007-01-15

You asked for it:

Posted by Jonathan LaCour on 2007-01-15

svg enable-background="new 0 0 470.459 547.583" height="450.00000pt" id="svg1" overflow="visible" space="preserve" version="1.0" viewBox="0 0 470.459 547.583" width="385.00000pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> right hand print

Posted by Ross Lawley on 2007-01-15

Posted by Ross Lawley on 2007-01-15

I can see that I am going to have to add some filtering to shrink SVG images if they exceed a certain size.

Posted by joe on 2007-01-15

I can see that I am going to have to add some filtering to shrink SVG images if they exceed a certain size.
Just SVG images?

Posted by Sam Ruby on 2007-01-15

Images can be handled by CSS.

Posted by joe on 2007-01-15

Posted by karl on 2007-01-16

You should be able to use CSS for the SVG images as well, if I remember correctly.

Posted by Anne van Kesteren on 2007-01-16

Sometimes I can be a little tone deaf, so can I ask what about this post's content clued people into the fact that your comments now accept SVG?

Posted by Pete Lacey on 2007-01-16

Pete,

There's no secret content indicating SVG-ness. I just happened to be talking to Sam on IM when I turned comments on and mentioned that I now supported SVG.

Posted by joe on 2007-01-16

First poster of an SVG version of goatse.cx gets a free USB internet-ready facestabbing device.

Posted by l.m.orchard on 2007-01-17

Sorry, comments on this entry are closed. Thanks for participating.