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"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix form...
Oolon Colluphid used the Babel fish as the main theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God. More specifically, Colluphid uses the Babel fish as an argument for intelligent design (or - and there are some subtle differences here) in a version of the so-called teleological argument for God's existence. But Colluphid then goes...
Arthur Dent's Babel fish was featured in and given a speaking voice in the 1992 documentary Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV documentary. It was voiced by Michael Cule.
Michèle Friend, 'God . . Promply Vanishes in a Puff of Logic' in Nicholas Joll ed., Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
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Nov 21, 2023 · In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams solves the age-old problem with the Babel Fish, a creature that translates any speech it hears into your native language for you: Fortunately, we can use Daily’s AI toolkits to solve this problem without having to jam anything into your ear!
May 19, 2016 · The Pilot from Waverly Labs is a smart earpiece that translates between different languages in real time. It works offline and uses speech recognition and machine translation technologies. Learn more about this sci-fi inspired gadget and how to get one.
Jan 15, 2015 · It's one step away from Douglas Adams' "Babel Fish," the little creature from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" that you stick into your ear to understand what aliens are saying.
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The Johnian author Douglas Adams created, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (variously a groundbreaking radio series, a bestselling novel sequence, a television version and a Hollywood film), the Babel fish: a small animal that, inserted through the ear, functions as a universal translator.
Jun 28, 1995 · Babelfish.com is a website that offers free online translation for phrases, sentences and web pages in 75 languages. You can also join the Babelfish community to get help with translations, rate other users' solutions and win prizes.