Space Is an Ocean/Quotes

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 the old West.

—Michael Swaim of Cracked.com, "The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future and Why They'll Never Happen"

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.

—An exaggeration of this trope from the RPG Codex forums