Hazards

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For years, the fabulously beautiful planet of Bethselamin increased its booming tourist industry without any worries at all. Alas, as is often the case, this was an act of utter stupidity, as it led to a colossal cumulative erosion problem. Of course, what else could one expect with ten billion tourists per annum? Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.

Eccentrica Gallumbits is the far-famed triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six. Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Ford Prefect disagrees, saying five. It is possible that the Big Bang was actually one of her orgasms. She wrote The Big Bang Theory - A Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits and It's Just One Boob After Another. It was reported that Zaphod Beeblebrox, whom she described as "the best bang since the Big One," had delivered a presidential address from her bedroom on at least one occasion. She offers Bethselamin Lessons, for which Marvin can book you an appointment if you CONTACT him. It is also rumoured that Zaphod grew his third arm for her.

A Vogon Constructor Fleet is a group of ships used by the Vogons to destroy planets. If one is detected near your instance of planet earth your planet's destruction is imminent.

To help you to recognise this hazard the picture above is a schematic of VFC Flagship Turlingdrome. The ship exteriors are usually yellow and they are said to hang in the air "the way that bricks don't".

The S.E.P. is a sort of cloaking device that can run almost indefinitely on an AA battery, and is able to do so because it utilises a person's natural tendency to ignore things they don't easily accept, like, for example, aliens at a cricket match. "Somebody else's problem" is a phrase used to describe an issue which is dismissed by a person on the grounds that they consider somebody else to be responsible for it. The term is also used to refer to a factor that is "out of scope" in a particular context. 

In the context of cryptocurrency projects, it is the phenomenon that causes people to ignore issues that they know about but think of as either not something they can do anything about, or not personally relevant to them right now. This can result in something that's very important to a group of people being ignored by every individual member of that group.

The Total Perspective Vortex is a machine built with the intention of showing beings the infinity of creation, which became a method of torture.

The Vortex is a device that was built as a practical application of the theory of atomic interactivity. The idea is that, if every atom of the universe is affected by every other atom of the universe, then it is theoretically possible to extrapolate a model of the entire universe using any single piece of matter as a starting point. The Vortex does this employing a piece of fairy cake as its base of extrapolation.  

The machine was originally created by its inventor Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife. She was always telling him to get a  "sense of proportion," so he showed her the Vortex. Tragula was horrified to learn he had destroyed her mind, even as he proved his point that if life was going to live in such a vast Universe, one thing it could not afford to have was a sense of perspective.  The Vortex then became used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here."  The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it  was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's  soul. 

When Zaphod was exposed to the Vortex, he was inside a computer-generated universe created for his protection by Zarniwoop. Since the entire universe was created for him, the TPV told him, in effect, that he was, in fact, the single most important person in the universe. This allowed Zaphod to survive the experience, and also did not surprise him in the least. Zaphod then proceeded to eat the fairy cake.

When Zaphod was subjected to the Vortex he became the first individual to survive it.  

The good news is that Zarniwoop and Marvin in partnership recently took over from Gagravarr as custodians of the Vortex. 

To grab the chance of a more promising future one needs to navigate and manage some of the risks described above.

Emerging blockchain technologies are enabling, through a combination of the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO) and Decentralised Finance (DeFi), exciting opportunities for ordinary people to take back control of their own finances and investments by making some of the existing inefficient financial establishment redundant.

Marvin says, "The IMF and World Bank repress poor countries and funnel their resources to rich ones."

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a vicious wild animal from the planet of Traal, known for its never-ending hunger and its mind-boggling stupidity. One of the main features of the Beast is that if you can't see it, it assumes it can't see you. Due to this it has been considered one of the least intelligent creatures in the Universe.