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I always assumed, no ones mentioned it yet, that Safari was a link to the Mac OS X code names.

You'd go on Safari to observe (not necessarily hunt) wild cats like Tigers, Lions, etc.

Also along with the binoculars for remote desktop, I thought they'd be going for a Safari theme throughout the OS, but it ended up going more space themed.

I guess you could say the OS (both Safari and space) fall into the exploration theme as a whole.