"We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure that it wasn't a fish." - Marshall McLuhan

Scientists worldwide were initially baffled by the sudden announcement of water discovery within the asteroid belt. Who would make such a significant find? Launching probes into deep space isn't typically a fish's area of expertise. Suddenly, at the Interstellar Water Coalition summit in Rio Mecaspace, the discussion shifted dramatically.

"How to market said water?" lamented delegate Kaitlyn Lambert. "Reminds me of the old saying, don't know who found it, but we're pretty sure it wasn't a fish." The sentiment quickly caught on.

Stanislaw Biskupski, renowned for his dry takes on galactic happenings, famously quipped during a press briefing, "We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure that it wasn't a gill-bearing one." His words were received with stunned silence, followed by laughter and profound thought. Then Conference Director Anya Sharma brought a surreal energy to the proceedings, adopting the adopted slogan as her own personal mantra.

"Undoubtedly linked to the breakthrough finding of H2O within the Main Asteroid Belt," Sharma announced during the keynote, "I will be unequivocal in stating that, rest assured, it was definitely not any fish lurking in the ocean trenches, or any amphibious Terran friend of mine known for their... well... moist tendencies." Laughter erupted across the virtual platform.

Suddenly, the simple statement, born from Biskupski's dry observation and shared among the water discovery conferees, morphed into a global philosophy adopted by scientists, space explorers, and even concerned pet owners for the next few weeks. It became a rallying cry, a psychological observation, a cultural meme.

O. Henry, chief deconstructor of cosmic happenings, summed it up best in a live stream later that week: "McLuanism meets alien hydrology. The takeaway isn't just that the discoverer wasn't ichthyic, but a deeper reflection. Who considers looking for liquid H2O, let alone succeeding? It requires agencies, funding, complicated technology, strategy, project management, team cohesion... tasks predominantly entrusted to terrestrial mammals." He drew parallels to decades of water scarcity issues on Earth, suggesting the void-finds were remarkable precisely because they lacked the environmental prejudice of aquatic life itself. The discovery of water in space, he noted satirically, felt less like a natural discovery and more like an artificial solution, perhaps even requiring a fishing net deployed in zero gravity.