“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” ~Douglas Adams
Instead, go out to the ocean on a clear day, and observe how absurdly vast the ocean is. Just ocean, as far as you can see. Look around and realize you’ve gained absolutely nothing in terms of comprehending the vastness of space, to which the difference between your room and the most sweeping views on Earth are just totally insignificant.
https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s
[edit] arrgh. brain spaz forgot to put in the URL
Not if it's at the speed of light, the journey will be instantaneous for the (massless) traveller.
For example, this image from a park in Halle (Germany) shows the inner solar system: https://dubisthalle.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Planetenwe... -- but one has to walk 500 meters to reach Pluto.
The German Wikipedia has quite a long list of planetary trails: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetenweg
They compare it to a US football field.
"On this scale, the Sun, by far the largest thing in our solar system, is only a ball about two-thirds of an inch (17 millimeters) in diameter sitting on the goal line — that's about the width of a U.S. dime coin. ...
The inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are about the size of grains of sand on a football field scale. They would be dwarfed by a typical flea, which is about 3 millimeters long.
Closest to the goal line is Mercury, just under a yard from the end zone (.8 yards to be specific). ... At this scale, Mercury's diameter would be scarcely as large as the point of a needle.
Venus is next. It is 1.4 yards from the end zone. ...
On to Earth, sitting pretty on the 2-yard line. ...
Mars is on the three-yard line of our imaginary football field. ...
Jupiter remains pretty close to our end zone on the 10.5-yard line. ...
Saturn is on the field at 19 yards from the goal line. ...
Uranus ... is about 38 yards from our end zone.
Neptune is where things start to get way out. It is 60 yards from our solar goal line on the imaginary football field. ...
Tiny Pluto is much closer to the opposing team's end zone. It's about 79 yards out from the Sun ...
On this scale, our little friend Voyager 1 has left the game and is well out in the stadium parking lot or beyond."
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/a-tranquil-sta...
"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion." -DNA