the space chicken was an excellent driver , having centuries of experience and even having been present at the first drive of an automobile in history ( the inventor , john whimsy gisbert , had assured the curious and skeptical public that , owing to the limitations observed in current scientific understanding , no vehicle would ever be able to travel faster than ten kilometres per haca sure as no tree will ever be able to grow more than ten items of fruit per year , eleven being an unlucky number and thus perpetually avoided in nature ; sure as protein can only ever come from the remains of slaughtered animals ; and sure as there will never be any evidence in favour of life outside glix before pushing his foot down upon the spike the pedal having already been invented , but naturally rejected in favour of the electroconductive abilities of the spike and hurtling forward into a brick wall at 57.11kmph and being crushed between his concrete chair ( concrete being the only substance known to man which can go within eleven metres of an electric wire without causing an explosion ) and his safety spike .