The way to always win the game is if you start, you just need to take away 1 counter and then try to get your opponent on 4 and then you will always win if you start. You can also try to get them on 12, 10, 8 and 4.
Language and communication in this book really import. The vogons and most other lifeforms pretty much speak another language. Language is a huge part also in everyday life. Douglas Adams has used language and communication very well.
Vogon poetry in chapter 7 is a big part of it. The Vogon poetry is just random words just put into sentences and apparently that's poetry. The book explains that Vogon poetry is the third-worst in the galaxy, the second-worst poetry is Azgoths of Kria and the very worst poetry is the Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
Arthur and Ford get captured by the vogons as they got picked up by accident by them. They are wrapped with a rope around a small brick wall. The fat Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz starts to reach into his pocket and blows the dust of an old book.
He starts reading his poetry and Ford Prefect starts to have a spasm, he doesn't really like the poetry. The Vogon starts to get up in Arthurs grill spitting saliva in his face. He steps back while finishing the last verse. He shuts the book giving Arthur a chill down his spine and is giving them a choice. It is either get thrown out of the ship into deep space or compliment him on his poetry.
Arthur starts to stutter and Ford is left speechless until Arthur starts to actually compliment him. He keeps talking about his free-verse and then stops and then Ford picks up his line as Ford's superpower is his mouth. The Vogon doesn't care and gets another vogon to take them to the airlock. They start to engage with a conversation and stalls him for a bit but then shuts the airlock and bye-bye.
To summarize this whole theme, language with the Vogon poetry plays a big role in this chapter as of Arthur and Ford getting read terrible poetry and them getting thrown into deep space. If there was no Vogon poetry or the vogons than the book would just be missing.
During maths, we have been learning about algebra. We get given a set of questions and have to turn them into equations, but we don't put the answers in as it can really be anything. Here is mine and see ya!!!
3c - 8 =
P - 4 =
12x - 15 =
13 + y ➗ 5 =
50 + 100n =
F ➗ 3 + 5 =
18 + 1.50t =
36 - P + 2 =
Objects in space follow the rules of physics, just like on Earth when you drop a pen it falls but in space that doesn’t happen, it’s the opposite. In space, it has no gravity so you will just float around. Whatever you put in space, it will just float.
On Earth, we have air that helps us steer, this is called inertia. In space, we don’t have inertia so we can’t control anything that we send into space. To make it change directions, you would have to have so many rockets or boosters for every direction.
For sound to travel in space there has to be with molecules for it to travel through space. On earth, sounds travel through your ears and vibrating air molecules.
In deep space the large empty areas between stars and planets there are no molecules to vibrate so there is no sound. So pretty much no molecules, no sound. That is just the rules of space.
