**EARTH: A Comprehensive Guide to the Galaxy's Most Overrated
 Blue-Green Planet** or alternatively: **EARTH: Everything You Never
 Needed to Know About the Third Rock from an Unremarkable Star**
**THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY**
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**EARTH**
*Mostly Harmless*
Earth is a small, blue-green planet orbiting an unregarded yellow sun
 in the unfashionable western spiral arm of the Galaxy. It is the third
 planet from its sun and is notable primarily for being the location
 where the most utterly insignificant little blue-green planet was
 demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
The dominant life forms on Earth believe themselves to be highly
 intelligent, despite the fact that they have yet to discover the
 Question to which the Answer is 42. They spend most of their time
 concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is
 odd because on the whole it isn't the small green pieces of paper that
 are unhappy.
Earth's inhabitants have developed numerous peculiar customs, such as:
- Standing in queues for things they don't particularly want
- Inventing digital watches (a pretty neat idea, according to them)
- Playing a game called "cricket" which appears to have no
 discernible purpose
- Believing that the planet belongs to them rather than to the dolphins
The planet was originally commissioned by mice as a giant computer to
 calculate the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
 Unfortunately, it was destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the
 ten-million-year program was completed, which was rather inconvenient
 for everyone involved, especially the dolphins who had been trying to
 warn everyone by doing impressive tricks and saying "So long, and
 thanks for all the fish."
*See also: Vogons, Dolphins, Digital Watches, The Number 42, Mice
 (Hyper-intelligent Pan-dimensional Beings)*
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