Martin AmisThe universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
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A lot of people have a hard time imagining just how big the universe is. A thought that it takes light from a million billion stars to reach us on Earth, and that every inch of our tiny planet would kill us if we went to the moon. To put it another way, if you were to travel from where you are reading this now to the other side of the Earth, you would have traveled about one tenth of one percent of the way to the edge of the universe.
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