Allen has noted: «The sense of hurtling through great black empty space... late at night on a dead straight line of asphalt with headlights shining... driving a car as fast as it would go... and listening to The Wolfman on the radio turned up as loud as it would go... is probably where every freedom I most value first began.» (thecontemporaryaustin.org)
A lot goes into an IIHS crash test even before the vehicle is sent hurtling toward a barrier. (iihs.org)
And any comets that the star might have sent hurtling towards the inner Solar System will not arrive for another few hundred thousand years, says Tremaine. (scientificamerican.com)