Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Arthur is lying down in front of the bulldozer, he says, 'well, I'm going t-' and then it cuts to another shot at a different angle, as he's saying, 'we'll see who rusts first.'

Correction: Arthur says, "I'm game, we'll see who rusts first." No continuity error.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Zaphod first meets Ford and Arthur, Zaphod says he did not know that Ford was on earth, yet he still knows to call him Ford Prefect, a name Ford gave himself whilst on earth.

Correction: According to Douglas Adams, Ford went back in time and retroactively changed his birth name to Ford Prefect, so everybody knows him by that name.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: As Ford and Arthur fall out the Vogon airlock, the Guide explains that someone can survive in vacuum for thirty seconds if they hold their breath. Actually, the opposite is true: if one exhales all air one can survive for several seconds. If one holds one's breath, the increased internal air pressure would cause a human to explode.

Phoenix

Correction: The Guide contains little or no information on human beings, which is why Ford was on Earth in the first place. This information would have been perfectly accurate with 95 percent of the intelligent space-faring species in the galaxy - it's not the Guide's fault if we're physiologically strange.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Earth II is finished, it can be assumed that the location in space is not anywhere near that of the original. (Due to the bypass) That in mind, how do the people resolve the fact that all the constellations won't be the same? Now that earth is in a different location, won't all the stars in the sky also be different?

Correction: Given that everything, people included, has had to be rebuilt pretty much from scratch, it would seem like a relatively simple task to adjust memories and documentation relating to the constellations to take account of this.

Tailkinker

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