History Quotes / SpaceIsAnOcean

-->-- UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "A Flight to Remember"

--> --'''Creator/CarlSagan'''

-->-- '''General Chang Weisi''', ''[[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem The Dark Forest]]''

->''"I never understood why Spacefleet has to follow naval traditions. The pioneer aviators who were the first to leave the surface of the Earth: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Chuck Yeager, the [[UsefulNotes/TheWrightBrothers Wright brothers]]--those are the ones we should look to for inspiration."''

->''"I never understood why Spacefleet has to follow naval traditions. The pioneer aviators who were the first to leave the surface of the Earth: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, [[AcePilot Chuck Yeager]], the [[UsefulNotes/TheWrightBrothers Wright brothers]]--those are the ones we should look to for inspiration."''

->''"I never understood why Spacefleet has to follow naval traditions. The pioneer aviators who were the first to leave the surface of the Earth: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Chuck Yeager, the [[UsefulNotes/TheWrightBrothers Wright brothers]]--those are the ones we should look to for inspiration."''

->"We are a [[FishPeople people of the sea]]. Space may not be so different."

-->-- ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith''

->"I never understood why Spacefleet has to follow naval traditions. The pioneer aviators who were the first to leave the surface of the Earth: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, Chuck Yeager, the [[UsefulNotes/TheWrightBrothers Wright brothers]]--those are the ones we should look to for inspiration."
-->-- '''Captain Janeway''', ''Fanfic/Rocketship''

'''Zapp Brannigan:''' Thats for school girls. Now heres a route with some chest hair.\\

'''Zapp Brannigan:''' Yes, comets, the icebergs of the sky. By jackknifing from one to the next at break next speed. We might just get some kind of gravity boost or something. It's time to shove a jalapeño up this {{s|paceSailing}}hip's tailpipe. Divert power from [[DeflectorShields the shields]]. Full speed ahead.

-->-- '''Michael Swaim''', ''Website/{{Cracked}}.[[http://www.cracked.com/article_14980_the-8-most-common-sci-fi-visions-future-and-why-theyll-never-happen_p2.html com]]'' editor.

->''When and if man ever breaches the womb of our solar system and is born in earnest as an interstellar being, only one thing will be certain: It will be exactly like sailing. That, or [[SpaceWestern the old West]].''

->''The space destroyer was on a six-month cruise in the Western Pacific Sector. It was two days out of Subic Spaceport in the Philios system when the ion storm struck. Meanwhile, many of the off duty sailors and officers were experiencing nauspace and lightheadedness, the initial symptoms of space scurvy.''

->''The surface of the Earth is the shore of the Cosmic Ocean. Recently, we've waded a little way out, and the water seems inviting.''
--> --Creator/CarlSagan

->''Space is an ocean of space.''

->''The surface of the Earth is the shore of the Cosmic Ocean. Recently, we've waded a little way out, an the water seems inviting.''

-->'''Zapp Brannigan:''' Kiff, I am feeling the captain's itch.\\

'''Kiff:''' But, that course leads directly through a swarm of comments.\\
'''Zapp Brannigan:''' Yes, comets, the icebergs of the sky. By jackknifing from one to the next at break next speed. We might just get some kind of gravity boost or something. It's time to shove a jalapeño up this [[SpaceSailing ship's]] tailpipe. Divert power from [[DeflectorShields the shields]]. Full speed ahead.

->''When and if man ever breaches the womb of our solar system and is born in earnest as an interstellar being, only one thing will be certain: It will be exactly like sailing. That, or [[WagonTrainToTheStars the old West]].''
-->-- '''Michael Swaim''', ''{{Cracked}}.[[http://www.cracked.com/article_14980_the-8-most-common-sci-fi-visions-future-and-why-theyll-never-happen_p2.html com]]'' editor.

-->-- ''{{Futurama}}'', "A Flight to Remember"

-->-- An exaggeration of this trope from [[http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=797657 the RPG Codex forums]]