Space

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The final frontier... to split infinitives like no-one has done before.

...which smells like burned almond cookies.

And what you always seem to lack when packing for a trip.

Space is an unlabelled key on your keyboard. Pianos have 88 white space keys, but they all produce the letters A to G. Which severely limits the vocabulary you can use.

Space is, of course, the absence of things. And I don't just mean like there's space between your eyes and the screen - that's actually air. Space is the not-thing that lies between all the things we can see and the things that we know are there that we cannot see. When astronomers talk about space, they mean that really big thing beyond the Earth that makes us feel insignificant. Well, they actually mean all the interesting things in it.

Space is also a place where no one can hear you scream. Where the No Scream Zone begins is a bit fuzzy due to some varying definitions. Here's one to get you started: in science fiction, the "com-link" seems to fail when something's about to happen to you that will make you scream. Your location at that moment is therefore "space".

Space has many dimensions. The first three are X, Y and Z. Some idiot started labelling them at X, so we ran out of alphabet for the next six.

Alternately, Space has been defined by the Hitchhikers Guide:

"Space is big.  Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly 
big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, 
but thats just peanuts to Space."
      

Thank you, Douglas.

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