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***** The problem here is that this explicit statement is contradicted by the described layout of the ship's interior. If it were truly built as small as possible and "stripped to the bare bones" then there wouldn't have been any room for a stowaway to even fit inside, let alone successfully conceal herself from the ship's other occupant. Why is there even a closet with a closable door in the first place, if they never intended to put anything in it? [[Plot Hole]].
**** It is going to decelerate at 5 gees for an extended period of time in order to hit the atmosphere slowly enough that it won't BURN UP on entry. The pilot is making a mercy dash to a research outpost where he will be stranded for at least a year until a mothership can retrieve him. No 'emergency rations', no spare change of clothes, the crash couch is NOT an optional extra at 5 gee, and the door to the closet plus his sidearm (the only other named ship components) cannot possibly mass to greater than two kilograms.
***** You just spotted ''another'' plot hole. This thing makes 5-gee accelerations and decelerations, to the point where the pilot needs all the additional mass of a reinforced acceleration couch to endure it... but the stowaway took that same acceleration sitting on a closet floor without so much as mussing her hair? The author officially fails physics forever.
***** He's going to be sitting somewhere with only one set of clothes for a year? The ship that finally picks him up had better have [[The Pig Pen|a good air-filtration system]]....
**** Finally, imagine the converse situation, a space LAUNCH where an extra 50 kilograms causes the ship to fail to reach it's correct orbit. Would everyone be crying foul then?
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