I want to be an early user before there's a half dozen on any body of water and the inevitable high speed collisions.
Adlai Stevenson - more or less.
I want to be an early user before there's a half dozen on any body of water and the inevitable high speed collisions.
It's an old idea:

(first published in 1944).
*snicker*
Funny that a cartoon character created it before the real folks did.
You know, in "On a marché sur la lune" ("They walked on the Moon"), published in 1953, Hergé describes Tintin sliding on a solid ice deposit in a deep Moon cave – 18 years before scientists said this was a likely situation.
Here's how Hergé reacted to Armstrong's "small step":

Snowy looks good with a bubble head!
When I was a kid I read every Tintin comic I could find.
Billions of blistering blue barnacles!!!
I've read them all except the very first one and the (unfinished) last one. But of course I read them in French.
Mille millions de mille sabords!!!