[RightWhale]

We better send a space probe out there to check it out. We should start tomorrow.

--But, do you know it will take 5000 years to get there from here?

Oh, that is a long time, we better start today.

[sigSEGV]

--But, do you know it will take 5000 years to get there from here?

A heckuva lot longer than that. IIRC, the center of the Milky Way is about 40,000 light years from Earth. About 250,000,000 years away at the speed of a Voyager type probe.