O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power through-out the universe displayed.
“How Great Thou Art”
Via Linoge, a wonderful little app. Even in our local neighborhood, the distances and times involved are tremendous. Most plans for a Mars mission are timed for around 2 1/2 to 3 years. A mission to Venus would last about a year. With our current technology, the outer Solar System is out of reach, much less the rest of our galaxy. Now begin to imagine the rest of space.
Heck, we live in suburbia. Boring G2 dwarf in a boring neighborhood, with a few oddball planets. Compared to some stars out there, our Sun is a pipsqueak:
And then you get to the fact that our universe is huge:
Thy pow’r thought the universe displayed…
