{"id":5919,"date":"2017-05-04T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/californianmassage.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2025-01-19T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:16:16","slug":"so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/blog\/education\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YryWbGXDfFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things are not always what they seem<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent <a href=\"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/animals-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">species<\/a> occupying the planet, instead of the third most intelligent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The dolphins&#8217; message<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The second most intelligent creatures were dolphins, who, curiously enough had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth. They&#8217;d made many attempts to alert mankind but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they eventually decided they would leave Earth by their own means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a sophisticated attempt to do a backward somersault through a hoop, whistling The Star-Spangled Banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the message was this: &#8220;So long and thanks for all the fish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/film\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-2005\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE HITCHHIKER&#8217;S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY<\/a>&#8220;, <\/em><em>directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garth_Jennings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garth Jennings<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;2005&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Touchstone_Pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Touchstone Pictures<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the third most intelligent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[612,613,614,615,616,617,618],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-en","category-education-en","tag-destroy","tag-dolphin","tag-funny","tag-human","tag-humorous","tag-humour","tag-planet-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13398,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/13398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loriscastagnoli.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}