Why yes, I suppose you could say that the Earth is like one big island drifting through the sea of space.

[He scrutinizes Red's illustration. It does look like a nightmarish scenario... He only hopes that parachutes are in wide practice there.] It would be a very long fall, to be sure. I suppose living on solid ground poses its own risks, but none so final yet tortuously prolonged as a simple tumble from the sky.