While referencing Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, Maynard is talking about things and people disappearing from this world. In the book, the dolphins left Earth because they knew it will be destroyed, and so in here it’s shown as a symbolic sign of the end closing in. In the meantime, people are ignoring the signs, because they’re distracted with producing, consuming and vanity to the point that they don’t even understand what’s going on and will see a nuclear apocalypse as a fireworks display. Also, using the phrase “moved on” suggests that maybe we can avoid the end by moving on to another planet, like the dolphins did.
While referencing Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, Maynard is talking about things and people disappearing from this world. In the book, the dolphins left Earth because they knew it will be destroyed, and so in here it’s shown as a symbolic sign of the end closing in. In the meantime, people are ignoring the signs, because they’re distracted with producing, consuming and vanity to the point that they don’t even understand what’s going on and will see a nuclear apocalypse as a fireworks display. Also, using the phrase “moved on” suggests that maybe we can avoid the end by moving on to another planet, like the dolphins did.