Third Entry of "The Restaraunt at the end of the Universe"

This time Arthur and Ford wakes up in a spaceship full of people that are inside to make a new civilization on a different planet. They find most of them locked in ice cubicles frozen from head to foot waiting to wake up when they get to the new planet that awaits them. Ford and Arthur start exploring when they meet the captain of the ship. He starts talking about boring things until Ford asks where the ship is going and why. He tells them that the people on their planet told them that their planet was going to be eaten by giant goats and that they, middle class people such as telephone sanitizers, were to go first. Ford contemplates on this when the captain says that they were to crash land on the planet. The captain starts to think of the reason that the people on their planet told them that they were to crash land when Ford gets frustrated and shouts "You're a load of useless bloody loonies!" and the captains nods his head saying that was the reason.

This seems to be a totally weird race that was introduced in the story, but Douglas Adams implies that this is what reality in our world is. People with power are supposed to be responsible and intelligent in their area, but in truth they're basically as Ford implies "a bunch of useless bloody loonies." What really interested me in this chapter was that there was a certain technology that allowed people to be stored in cold conditions and revived again. Many scientists are still testing this theory and in experiments on animals, this seems to work, but on humans there has been no progress. How Douglas Adams in this chapter also tells us that he's sarcastic with people that are superior in society. He takes all those complaints and puts them in his story that looks so bizarre, but it does have his thoughts about it all along.