“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it is a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

…and so on.

As an adjunct to today’s blockbusting “Hitchhiker’s” review, here’s a handy guide to our own wee corner of the universe—

http://astro.neutral.org/imagehtml/scale.html

—so that noone can accuse you of not taking an interest in local affairs.