Time flies like a rocket ship.  Like one of those old rocket ships, 
that's only good for one trip, and stages fall off to plunge into 
the ocean, pieces of shattered burnt-out wreckage as the main section 
barely makes it up to beyond the atmosphere, not like one of these 
new-fangled reusable space shuttles with all their fancy-shmancy 1970s 
technologies that get to fly and land and fly again.