Ya, but Heinlein is just plain ridiculous at times. Part of it is he was writing back when wives stayed at home cooking and cleaning and would greet their husbands after work with a pipe and slippers.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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