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I got completely turned off to Crichton after his book <em>Airframe</em>, which was touted as the "shocking truth about what airframers don't know about metal fatigue" Since I was an airframe maker, and we had known about (and designed around) airframe fatigue issues since before Crichton first put pen to paper, being lectured to by a no-better-than-second-rate novelist was highly offensive. Maybe I should have lectured him about plot.</p><!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only -->
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Information about American English usage [http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html|here] and [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/|here]. Floating point issues? Please read [http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html| this ] before posting. — emc</p>
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