Len of the Chilterns

To get things into perspective, if one could catch a space rocket and travel from one side of the known universe to the other, travelling at 300,000 kilometres a second, the journey would take 156 thousand million years. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a mere speck of dust in this vastness, our solar system a tiny dot in the galaxy. The entire human existence is a nothing; a mere blip in the passage of biological time which began on earth about 3,800 million years ago. Where it came from is unknown. ...