“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.”

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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