This activity provides an alternate name for Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #48, in which a woman in a plaid skirt stands facing away from the viewer next to her suitcase. John Maynard Smith referenced this activity for the name of a genetic effect in which an allele increases in frequency due to a linked beneficial allele. Dutch liftplaats signs mark places for this activity, which is similar to the D.C. area’s “slug lines.” In 2013, a Canadian robot that did this activity across Canada was destroyed in Philadelphia. In a book titled partly for this activity, Vogons destroy Earth right after the protagonist is saved by the towel-carrying Ford Prefect. For 10 points, extending one’s thumb towards the road is a gesture for what activity that inspired a series of “Guides” by Douglas Adams? ■END■
ANSWER: hitchhiking [or hitching; or hitchhike; accept thumbing until “thumb” is read; accept The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; accept HitchBot; accept genetic hitchhiking; prompt on driving, riding in a car, traveling, waiting for a rideshare, passengers, carpooling, commuting, or equivalents of any]
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