“Space is big. Really 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, but that's just peanuts to space.”

From Flutterby [1] comes this video of traversing our Solar System at the speed of light [2]. It's only (only!) 45 minutes long, and you want to know how far you get in just 45 minutes?

A bit past Jupiter [3] (oddly enough, it also takes about 45 minutes to get a bit past Jupiter [4] from Chez Boca—fancy that).

[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/21900.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

[4] https://www.jupiter.fl.us/

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