<P> In the novel And Another Thing..., this is the ship of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz . </P> <P> The Golgafrincham B - Ark was two miles long and capped by a bridge that offered a panoramic view of the stars . Its interior corridors were covered in brown Hessian wall - weave, and home to fifteen million unwanted "colonists" in cryonic suspension . The ship was built as part of an elaborate con to exile an unwitting third of Golgafrincham's population; convincing them their planet was doomed, the majority sent them off to another planet, which happened to be Earth . Upon completing its five - year journey, the ship crashed into a swamp, taking the vast majority of its sleeping passengers with it . </P> <P> Heart of Gold is the first prototype ship to successfully use the revolutionary Infinite Improbability Drive . It is 150 metres long and has been represented in various shapes . The original radio series did not specify a shape . In the novel adapted from the first four episodes of the radio series, it was described as a sleek white running shoe, which the TV adaptation adopted as a basis for its depictions . In the 2005 movie, it is more spherical with a hole and red brake lights on the rear that form the shape of a heart, a shape derived from a teacup in the brownian motion producer that powers the Infinite Improbability Drive . It also features a mural around the hole which depicts the invention of the Drive . It was built as a secret government project on planet Damogran from where Zaphod Beeblebrox, the then - President of the Imperial Galactic Government, stole it at the launching ceremony . </P> <P> The ship's cybernetics consist of a new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers with Genuine People Personalities (including Eddie the shipboard computer and Marvin). </P>

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