Have Fun Staying Slow

The best way to win a Rocket Dog race is being fast, but the most hilarious way is to make someone else slow. There are a lot of items that can slow down a competitor, but perhaps none do it with as much comic relief as Have Fun Staying Slow.

The Have Fun Staying Slow (HFSS) is a mix of bleeding-edge high-tech, married to the comically old school. The HFSS is packaged into a dispenser the size and shape of a soda can, with a single push button on the side. When depressed, the front lid springs open, revealing the three small red eyes of the hunter seeker missile. The missile locks onto the designated dog, calculates a trajectory (aiming not at where the competitor is now, but where he or she will be in a few seconds), and launches itself using a puff of cold nitrogen gas to explode out of the dispenser before spooling up a miniaturized turbojet engine. The HFSS payload jettisons the targeting equipment and boost stage just before impact. The front surface of the HFSS “warhead” is a patch of high strength (but short lived) molecular glue, which will stick to anything it hits - Rocket Dog fur, a space suit, or a rocket. The other 95% of the “warhead” is a parachute which immediately inflates, adding a huge amount of drag and causing the targeted dog to fall behind.

Of course, the glue is short lived, unsticking after just 8 seconds. The HFSS will cause a competitor to GET slow but KEEPING the competitor slow is going to require more tricks and techniques!