Don’t think anybody got much sleep Thursday night. All Loonies knew
that Friday morning would be our big try. And everybody Earthside knew
and at last their news admitted that Spacetrack had picked up objects
headed for Terra, presumably “rice bowls” those rebellious convicts had
boasted about. But was not a war warning, was mostly assurances that Moon
colony could not possibly build H-bombs but might be prudent to avoid areas which these criminals claimed to be aiming at. (Except one funny
boy, popular news comic who said our targets would be safest place to be-
-this on video, standing on a big X-mark which he claimed was 110W x 40N.
Don’t recall hearing of him later.)
As soon as I started reading your post, I KNEW it was a quote from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress!” One of my favorite books of all time, and my favorite Heinlein work.