1. The notional locATion of any program thAT has gone {off the trolley}. Especially used of programs thAT just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected. "Uh oh. I should have had a prompt ten seconds ago. The program' s in deep space somewhere." Compare buzz, cATATonic, hyperspace. 2. The metaphorical locATion of a human so dazed and/or confused or caught up in some esoteric form of bogosity thAT he or she no longer responds coherently to normal communicATion. [Jargon File]