Well, there is a story about the James Bond film Thunderball, in a scene of which Sean Connery uses a tiny oxygen cylinder device to survive an underwater swim. The Ministry of Defence (iirc) asked the producers how long the device would last, and they replied to the effect of "as long as you can hold your breath". Basically it was a non functioning prop. I take the Ron Howard story in the same sort of way - likely he asked about the anti-gravity room and was told there isn't one, but that there is the Vomit Comet. I'm assuming that's the point of the anecdote, anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
