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{{quote|'''Roger''': For starters, spaceships do ''not'' make 180 degree turns! |
{{quote|'''Roger''': For starters, spaceships do ''not'' make 180 degree turns! |
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'''Hazel''': Mine do. }} |
'''Hazel''': Mine do. }} |
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** Also played with in that Hazel is hardly technically ignorant - she's a qualified nuclear engineer and the best astrogator and mathematician on the ship - she just doesn't ''care'' about technical accuracy, because she's writing B-movie grade schlock and knows it. |
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* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Early in their trip to Mars, Buster, the youngest of the Stones, suffers from severe space sickness. Roger makes plans to swing their ship back towards Luna, despite being turned down by traffic control and knowing he'd at minimum be heavily fined, and have his ship master's license revoked. |
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Early in their trip to Mars, Buster, the youngest of the Stones, suffers from severe space sickness. Roger makes plans to swing their ship back towards Luna, despite being turned down by traffic control and knowing he'd at minimum be heavily fined, and have his ship master's license revoked. |
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* [[Shown Their Work]]: In the book ''[[Literature/Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]'', Mr Heinlein explain how Mrs Heinlein and he spent many hours calculating the precise orbit of the spaceship when it departs Luna and slingshots around Earth toward Mars. They had to do it with paper and pen, because in the early 1950s there was no other way and he wanted it to be correct. |
* [[Shown Their Work]]: In the book ''[[Literature/Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]'', Mr Heinlein explain how Mrs Heinlein and he spent many hours calculating the precise orbit of the spaceship when it departs Luna and slingshots around Earth toward Mars. They had to do it with paper and pen, because in the early 1950s there was no other way and he wanted it to be correct. |
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