"You don’t know what it’s like up there! Wait a minute, you do know—you’ve lived on a submarine. But see, they’ve been just burning, ever since little Singapore threw that guy up with the laser launch. Because they’ve been up there for years , hanging their ass on the edge of the infinite, and nobody paying attention. Didn’t you hear how pathetic Vassily was? Like some ham-radio geezer locked in a basement."