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   From: mscottschilling@hotmail.com   
      
   Bill Patterson wrote:   
   >   
   > Similarly, I don't think I noticed the item in MC as an error of   
   > physical science, since I read it as a facetiously proposed "why   
   > don't   
   > we test the theory and see what happens?"   
      
   Then why does the captain mention women and children?  See, it's   
   precisely this special pleading to absolve RAH of any mistakes that I   
   find so irritating.   
      
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