The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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Manuel, the Professor, and Wyoming celebrate that Mike thinks their odds of success are better than one in 10. They agree that Manuel will be chairman, and they will keep all of their records on Mike so that there is no written evidence. Since the Lunar Authority is based on Earth, they will need to design a way to attack Earth. Then, they discuss how many Authority agents are active on the Lunar colony. Mike provides them with a list of all the Authority spies. The Professor suggests they use the spies to their advantage instead of outing or killing them—he wants to keep them quarantined from the larger revolutionary conspiracy. They research Authority files and discover that the Authority only considers Wyoming a threat; they do not suspect the Professor or Manuel. The three of them decide to use the hotel room as a base and book it for a month.

Mike proposes that to attack Earth, the revolutionaries use a catapult of the sort used to ship goods from the Moon to Earth. He suggests they put moon rocks in a catapult to “bomb” Earth from the Moon.