Why go to all that trouble, asked Mr Powell, if the tubes were just to be blown up in a rocket?

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Why would they continue refining the specifications, go to all that trouble for something that, if it was a rocket, would soon be blown into shrapnel when it went off?

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The thing that truly surprises him is the fact that somebody would go to the trouble of compiling all of his online information into a narrative.

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