space cadet

Noun

Meaning

someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)

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flake blue dreamer freak fiend spaceman absorbed absent distracted dreaming careless abstracted addict forgetful cosmonaut

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sage savant focused aware intellectual conscious

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His 1949 novel Space Cadet describes a future scenario where a military-controlled global government enforces world peace. Source: Internet

In the first chapter of the novel Space Cadet he anticipated the cell-phone, 35 years before Motorola invented the technology. Source: Internet

Space Cadet, Tom Doherty Associates, 2006, Page 10 Several of Heinlein's works have been adapted for film and television. Source: Internet