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You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 8.
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”Space,” it says, ”is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen . . . ” and so on.
Space is small. You just won't believe how itsy, bitsy, mind-bogglingly tiny it is. I mean, you may think it's long way to the fridge, but that's just peanuts to space
The diameter of the entire observable universe is not even a full ronnameter.