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Obligatory DA: Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

I like to describe it by telling people to imagine that the sun's diameter is the height of a door frame. The earth is roughly the size of a nickel 720ish feet away. Proxima Centauri is about 35 miles away.

You may think its a long walk to the chemists, but that's just *peanuts* to space...

now realize something like 90% of the galaxies you see are already outside our light cone gone and ain't coming back unless someone cracks FTL

Nice how we always underestimated the size of the universe and its age.

I've analysed this quite carefully, but I cannot for the life of me see the Starship Enterprise anywhere.