: Star Trek, Star Wars, all of them - they're happening in an absolutely HUGE
: (and my all caps obviously doesn't do it justice) area and this video...

: http://vimeo.com/117815404

: ...helped me appreciate that vastness again.

: I get that we have to bring things back to what we know (slipspace, warp
: drives) as things would get pretty boring, it continually amazes me just
: how grand things really are in space.

: Bonus thought: I didn't realize how much I think of the planets as friends.
: On the video, when the light finally reached Jupiter I felt like i was
: seeing an old friend :-)

: Thanks to Challies.com for the link.

It's amazingly huge and empty out there. :)

Here's another link that puts the solar system's size into scaled perspective:
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html