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   Ubiquitous   wrote:   
   >I think a science person, I believe it was Issac Asimnov,   
   >wrote an essay about that.   
      
   That sounds like him.  It was probably hilarious.   
      
   I recall the one he wrote for TV Guide about the Lost in   
   Space episode where they made it back to Earth, but their   
   vacuum brakes failed and they shot out the other side of   
   the Solar System.   
      
   Asimov described the magnitude of the distances involved as   
   being comparable to "A little girl on her tricycle in Kansas   
   City takes a wrong turn on Main Street and shoots off into the   
   Pacific Ocean."   
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