Space Is Big. Like, Really Big

[Zacs-Master]

[aelmpvw]

you're not wrong

[Zacs-Master]

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2209/our-milky-way-galaxy-how-big-is-space/

[bookbinder]

How do you know?

[Old_Geezer]

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly 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.

[Zacs-Master]

HGttG, OG. Nice one.

Sorry everybloody, link didn’t work in my OP. I blame NASA.

[bookbinder]

Yes, that's all very well, but does it matter?

[Bazile]

And it's expanding

[Zacs-Master]

Not to me, bookbinder.

[ToraToraTora]

....and people still think we'll one day encounter aliens.

[Old_Geezer]

It's not until you see animations like that, that you realise how excruciatingly slow warp speed really is. Next to nowhere in a lifetime. Thank goodness for wormholes (maybe).

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Whatever you do don't get a speck of dust on your lens or you'll discombobulate everything and then where would we be.

[Tilly2]

I enjoyed watching that. Thanks, Zacs.

[ludwig]

Interesting video. Thanks.

[mibn2cweus]

As I'm sure you're aware Z-M, 100,000ly is a mere drop in the bucket, cosmologically speaking. One galaxy depicted amongst trillions, in mostly empty space in the observable universe alone. One might hope, if we should ever encounter other conscious beings aware of its existence, we'd all be willing to share.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, mibn, that's the amazing thing tho isn't it. It takes us around 11 hours to fly from UK to California which makes it seem like a long way but in the grand scheme of things its like us looking at a nano-particle. Almost incomprehensible how big the universe is.

[douglas9401]

Vast and almost devoid of intelligence.

Enough about Answerbank though and back to space. :-)

[Bazile]

And its still expanding