I believe he was advised by Ford Prefect that he could if he wanted to, but it wouldn't help
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What I want to know is when the end of the world doesn't come as and when predicted, do all the gullible fools grin sheepishly, and realise that they have been taken for a ride. Perhaps they might wake up to the fact that that nice African lawyer/bank official/government official/*** (insert favourite variation of the Nigerian scam) may not be totally honest.
It is sad to say that I followed a link to a youtube site and read a couple of comments... on that sticks in my mind denounces the fact that the comet is breaking up a suspicious because it (apparently) been around before and that it was breaking up near the anniversary of 9/11 it must be the onset of a full-scale alien invasion. A couple of problems I had with that was 1. I didn't know aliens were fundamentalists, and 2. The poster in question just can't get a grip on the fact that the US in not the centre of the universe and things can happen unrelated to it.
Sorry if this is viewed as a rant, of it is off-topic, its just that reading how the nutters and downright malicious dis-informationist can have such a disproportionate voice over facts and sensible debate. I shouldn't look at such nonsense, and shall refrain forthwith.