Tazer: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.
Tazer: You now have fifteen seconds to comply.
Tazer: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
Tazer: You have five seconds to comply.
Citizen: Help...! Help me!
Tazer: Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!

(My apologies to ED)

Lightsail prototype and several other non-military payloads are hitching a ride on this launch. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...

A science fiction short story used it as a plot device decades ago. Might've been in an ACE or Tor printing, so that probably dates it to the late 1960s? The Bad Guys dropped into the planet's orbit, more or less matched speeds with the planet (remember, they need to move fast enough to avoid the well documented "Bug on the Windshield" Effect), and "simply" let the planet drive under them. They faced the same problem that NASA does, too. The story hinged on the difficulties of landing in the smallest number of pieces possible.

Question for Paul Sams: Is Blizzard/Activision pursuing any development efforts with Jordan Weisman and/or Smith & Tinker?