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Tralfamadore is the fictional home planet of aliens from several novels by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Details on the inhabitants of the planet vary from novel to novel:
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- In The Sirens of Titan, Tralfamadore is a planet in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the home of a civilization of machines, which dispatches Salo to a distant galaxy with a message for its inhabitants. After a part in his ship breaks, however, Salo is forced to land on Titan, a moon of Saturn, where he befriends Winston Niles Rumfoord. Rumfoord exists in much the same way as the Tralfamadorians of Slaughterhouse-Five, while Salo appears to move in a linear fashion. The translation of Tralfamadore is given by Salo as both all of us and the number 541.
- In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Tralfamadore is a hypothetical foreign planet, used in a purely rhetorical sense as part of a thought exercise.
- In Slaughterhouse-Five, Tralfamadore is the home to beings who exist in all times simultaneously, and are thus privy to knowledge of future events, including the destruction of the universe at the hands of a Tralfamadorian test pilot. They kidnap Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of the novel, and place him in a zoo on Tralfamadore with Montana Wildhack, an actress in pornographic films.
- In Hocus Pocus, the Tralfamadore is the planet nearest to where ancient multi-dimensional beings meet that supposedly control all aspects of human life including social affairs and politics. The actual Tralfamadorians are said to have too much of a sense of humor to be affected by the beings, unlike humans. Their exploits are chronicled in The Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamadore (an overt reference to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion), which is published serially in a pornographic magazine called Black Garterbelt. Though the author is never specified, the media in which it is published suggests that it may be Kilgore Trout.
- In Timequake, Tralfamadore is mentioned offhand as a fantastical meeting place of anthropomorphized chemical elements.
Other uses
- The band Madrugada released a live album called Live at Tralfamadore in 2005.
- The Tralfamadore Cafe (aka "The Tralf") is a popular club in Buffalo, well known for experimental jazz and rock music.
aliens, or sometimes visitors.
This usage is clearly anthropocentric: when humans in fictional accounts accomplish interstellar travel and land on a planet elsewhere in the universe, the local inhabitants of these other planets are usually still referred to as
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Born: November 11 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died: March 11 2007 (aged 86)
New York, New York, U.S.
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Titan
Titan seen from the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft.
Discovery
Discovered by: Christiaan Huygens
Discovery date: March 25 1655
Orbital characteristics[1]
Semi-major axis: 1,221,870 km
Eccentricity: 0.
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Titan seen from the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft.
Discovery
Discovered by: Christiaan Huygens
Discovery date: March 25 1655
Orbital characteristics[1]
Semi-major axis: 1,221,870 km
Eccentricity: 0.
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Saturn
Saturn, as seen by Cassini
Orbital characteristics[1][2]
Epoch J2000
Aphelion distance: 1,513,325,783 km
10.11595804 AU
Perihelion distance: 1,353,572,956 km
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Saturn, as seen by Cassini
Orbital characteristics[1][2]
Epoch J2000
Aphelion distance: 1,513,325,783 km
10.11595804 AU
Perihelion distance: 1,353,572,956 km
9.
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Cover of first edition (Hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Dell
Publication date 1965
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Cover of first edition (Hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Dell
Publication date 1965
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A thought experiment (from the German term Gedankenexperiment, coined by Hans Christian Ørsted) in the broadest sense is the use of a hypothetical scenario to help us understand the way things actually are. There are many different kinds of thought experiments.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
First edition cover
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Philosophical, War novel, Dark comedy
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1969
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First edition cover
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Philosophical, War novel, Dark comedy
Publisher Delacorte Press
Publication date 1969
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Hocus Pocus
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Putnam Publishing Group
Publication date 1990
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Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Putnam Publishing Group
Publication date 1990
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Russian: "Протоколы сионских мудрецов", or
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Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. Although it is said that he is a fictionalization of the real author Theodore Sturgeon, Vonnegut called Kilgore his "alter ego" and "somebody he used to be.
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Timequake
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Semi-autobiographical novel; Fiction
Publisher Putnam Publishing Group
Publication date 1997
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Semi-autobiographical novel; Fiction
Publisher Putnam Publishing Group
Publication date 1997
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chemical element, or element, is a type of atom that is defined by its atomic number; that is, by the number of protons in its nucleus. The term is also used to refer to a pure chemical substance composed of atoms with the same number of protons.
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Madrugada is a Norwegian rock band formed in the town of Stokmarknes 1995. The band members include Frode Jacobsen (bass) and Sivert Høyem (vocals). Robert Burås (guitar) was also a member of the band, until he passed away July 12 2007.
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Live at Tralfamadore
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Live at Tralfamadore is the fifth album, and the first live album by the Norwegian rock band Madrugada. It was released on EMI records in 2005. The album was recorded at various locations, as noted in the tracklisting.
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Live at Tralfamadore is the fifth album, and the first live album by the Norwegian rock band Madrugada. It was released on EMI records in 2005. The album was recorded at various locations, as noted in the tracklisting.
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