All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.
Get away from her YOU BITCH!
We’d better get back because it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night. Mostly.
Another one occurred to me as I read these submissions, and it comes from the immortal Donovan Leitch.
“Oh, the intergalactic laxative,
Will get you from here to there.
Relieve you and believe me,
Without a worry or care.
If shitting is your problem,
When you’re out there in the stars,
Oh, the intergalactic laxative
Will get you from here to Mars.”
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I’ll be back again, and again and again and again and again…
6…5…4…3…2…1…Thunderbirds … Are … Go!
And, for those of you:
*Roger Ramjet and his Eagles
Fighting for our freedom
Fly through and in outer space
Not to join 'em but to beat 'em.
Roger Ramjet, he’s our man
Hero of our nation
For his adventures just be sure
And stay tuned to this station.*
“Space. we need more of it. The universe is getting more crowded by the minute.”
– from Star Wreck: The Generation Gap by Leah Rewolinski
Engage.
Make it So!
Which really should be a Dilbert quote…
I am Nomad! I am perfect!
Lisa: “I don’t want to move into your space pod. Besides, your space pod is cold and drafty.”
Dave: “Then I’ll buy a space heater.”
Oh, the pain…the pain.
You bubble-headed booby!
“The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.”
~Robert A. Heinlein
BONUS (too big for your purposes, but too cool not to post)…
We have to stay here and there’s a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes … and all of this … all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
~Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 5
More here…
http://scv.bu.edu/~aarondf/b5quotes.html
For the rare non-Jack Vance fan, this is from The Face, an excellent book. It features the absolute best form of revenge I can imagine.
Apollo 15 CAPCOM: “As the space poet Rhysling would say, we’re ready for you to ‘come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.’”
‘This Universe must not fail’
Sir Oliver Lodge
‘I’m the urban spaceman, baby; here comes the twist–
I don’t exist’
the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
I am the mothership connection - Parliament/Funkadelics
In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD, they had reached the other planets of our solar system. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through which the speed of light was first obtained and later greatly surpassed. And so, at last, mankind began the conquest and colonization of deep space. United Planets Cruiser C57D, now more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of the great main-sequence star “Altair.”
Monsters in the id.