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** Or by having a warning sign on the door that actually warned people 'Stowaways Will Be Shot And Dumped Out The Airlock, No Exceptions, This Means You' instead of simply saying 'No Trespassing'.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: There is none. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], as the author doesn't explore ''why'' the valid alternatives are impossible; the audience has to take the word of the in-universe experts.
** The story is actually fairly good about setting up the lack of possible alternatives once Marilyn has boarded the spacecraft and it has launched. The problem lies in the epic amount of [[Idiot Plot]] it took to get things that far in the first place.
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Barton notes that "On Earth [Marilyn's] plight would have filled the newscasts...Everyone, everywhere, would have known of Marilyn Lee Cross and no effort would have been spared to save her life." In space, however, there's no room for that kind of emotion.
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: Very Hard, with the exception of hyperspace aircraft carriers, as the fuel dilemma is based around the application of the Rocket Equation, which can be simplified to: In space, you need fuel to lift the fuel, and more fuel to lift that fuel, so every gram counts.
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