"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly 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." -- Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. (And yeah LEO is just a tiny infinitesimal scrap of "space", but its still big enough even humanity hasn't managed to mess it up completely yet...)