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	Topics Babel fish Topic Home The Babel fish is a fictional species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Summary *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* is a science fiction comedy series that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC... series by Douglas AdamsDouglas Adams Douglas Nol Adams was a cult British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician.... . It is introduced in the first novel of the series as a speciesSpecies In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity.... of fishFish A fish is a water-dwelling vertebrate with gills, that remains so throughout its life.... that can instantly translate any languageLanguage A language is a system of s, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols that encode or decode information.... to any other language: The BabelBabel Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon, notable as the location of the Tower of Babel.... fish was a useful plot devicePlot device A plot device is a person or an object introduced to a story to affect or advance the plot.... for Adams, as it allowed various alienExtraterrestrial life in popular culture For a scientific theory point of view, see extraterrestrial life.... races to communicate while speaking different languages. Adams wrote that the idea that all aliens would speak EnglishEnglish language Summary English is a widely distributed language that originated in England but is now the primary language in numerous countries.... was, to him, very strange. In the story, Ford PrefectFord Prefect (character) Ford Prefect is a fictional character in the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Dou... gives Arthur DentArthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's ... his babel fish after they have teleported to the VogonVogon The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Dougla... spaceship and the Earth has been demolished. In the TV series version, Ford acquires the fish for Arthur from an aquarium-like vending machineVending machine A vending machine is a machine that dispenses merchandise when a customer deposits sufficient money into a slot or vent to p... on board. In the book So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur returns to Earth after his hitch-hiking and finally removes his babel fish – letting it swim in the goldfish bowl the dolphins have left for him and deciding that he will only now need it for watching foreign films. The fish's name refers to the story of the Tower of BabelTower of Babel According to the narrative in Genesis of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the ... from the Book of Genesis. Existence of God Adams' description of the Babel fish also triggered a digression about the existence of GodExistence of God Existence of God arguments have been proposed by philosophers, theologians, and other thinkers.... , since the Babel fish was put forth as a fideistFideism In Christian theology, fideism is any of several belief systems which hold, on various grounds, that reason is irrelevant to... example for the non-existence of a deityDeity A deity, god, or borus is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worsh... : In the feature film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* is a science fiction comedy film based on the book of the same name by Douglas Adam... , this scene was omitted and used as a bonus feature on the DVDDVD DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound q... release. Trivia Norwegian pop/rock band Babel FishBabel Fish (band) Babel Fish are a Norwegian pop rock band from Oslo formed in the late 1980s.... got their name from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, after they found out that their original name, Daily Planet, had already been registered by another Norwegian group. Alta Vista's web translation service is named Babel FishFacts About Babel Fish (website) Babel Fish is a web-based application developed by AltaVista which machine translates text or web pages from one of several ... . Yahoo!Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company.... later purchased Alta Vista along with the translator on May 9, 2008. See also Universal translatorUniversal translator The universal translator is a fictional device common to many science fiction works....