Recycled In Space / Real Life

• Byzantium is The Roman Empire IN THE EAST!
• The computer programming language C++ was originally called (and originally was) C....WITH CLASSES!
• Hubble is a telescope... but IN SPACE!
  • And it's repaired by space shuttles, which are airplanes IN SPACE!
• The OCR Physics A level in England. A levels have two sections; AS and A2. When asked what was covered in A2, one troper's teacher replied, "It's basically AS module one IN SPACE."
• New Orleans' French Quarter is Paris IN AMERICA!
• Argentina is Spain AS A LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLIC!
• The Deep South is Northern England IN AMERICA!
  • Or, given the English origins of its first European settlers, the South and West of England IN AMERICA!
• In terms of its original British settlement, New England is East Anglia IN AMERICA!
  • And Appalachia is the Anglo-Scottish border region IN AMERICA!^note While a significant minority of Appalachia's settlers came from what's now Northern Ireland, almost all had ancestral roots in the aforementioned border region.
• Patents for common software algorithms aren't that novel and won't be easily obtained. However, you can instead obtain patents for common software algorithms ON THE INTERNET!
• Space solar power. Gigawatt-scale solar-panel arrays didn't work out? Okay, let's try gigawatt-scale solar-panel arrays IN SPACE!
• Space weather. It's weather. IN SPACE! Except it's actually life-threatening radiation.
• St. Vladimir was King Manasseh IN RUSSIA!
• Tang is orange juice that only became popular after astronauts drank it IN SPACE!
• This article/video describes the light show made when you explode an H-bomb. IN SPACE!
• This sort of premise has been seen in venture capital investing, in which it becomes shorthand to describe some new idea as "X for Y" where X is some preexisting thing and Y is some new demographic. (For example, "Groupons for Moms".) Venture capitalist Ethan Kurzweil has written an article decrying this tendency as lazy and possibly detrimental to creativity.
• Undergraduate math is made of this trope:
  • Many universities have three semesters of calculus, where Calculus III is Calculus I and II IN 3D SPACE!
  • After learning about vectors on a plane comes vectors IN SPACE!
  • Similarly, multi-variable calculus is calculus IN 3D SPACE!
• Zero-G Spot is, as the Laconic page says, sex IN SPACE!
  • The Wikipedia equivalent, "Sex in space", is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin!
• The Other Wiki has an entire template dedicated to topics... IN SPACE!
• As described by Senator John Madigan: "Submarines are the spaceships OF THE OCEAN."
• Elon Musk decided to use his SpaceX program to launch his personal Tesla roadster IN SPACE!
• European Polecats are Ferrets IN THE WILD!
• New England is The Deep South IN THE NORTHEAST!
• The Mummers Parade is the Rio Carnival IN PHILADELPHIA!
• New Zealand is Ireland/Canada IN OCEANIA!
• Toronto is New York City IN CANADA!
• Vancouver is Seattle IN CANADA!
• Montreal is Paris IN CANADA!
• Calgary is Fort Worth IN CANADA!
• Chicago is New York City IN THE MIDWEST!

Award Ceremonies

• After the Golden Raspberry Awards soared into popularity (at first), it was copied by every wannabe Caustic Critic out there:
  • The Golden Kela Awards FOR BOLLYWOOD!
  • The Bunshun Kiichigo Awards (now discontinued) FOR JAPANESE CINEMA!
  • The Stuffed Lion Award (now discontinued) FOR CZECH CINEMA!
  • The Carbuncle Cup (now discontinued) FOR BRITISH ARCHITECTURE!
  • The Naomi Awards (now discontinued) FOR BRITISH POP MUSIC!
• The Radio Disney Music Awards were The Kids' Choice Awards BUT PRIMARILY MUSIC-FOCUSED!