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And would still take ~29 million years [1] to exit the galaxy (if it had started from the center). Space is large.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28diameter+of+Milky+Wa...

“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.”

"If you could put the universe into a tube, you'd end up with a very long tube, probably extending twice the size of the universe. Because when you collapse the universe, it expands. And it would be-- you wouldn't want to put it into a tube."

https://youtu.be/FYJ1dbyDcrI?t=74

I’ve posted it many times, given the opportunity, and I think it also fits nicely here: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

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