[TitansAFC]

27,000 light years across.

---sigh---

27,000 years at the maximum possible speed in the universe.

So much we'll never get to explore.

Hell---it'll take forever just to get communications 1/27th of the way across (1000 years!!!!)

[Darkwolf377]

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a great essay called something like "We Will Never Conquer The Stars," about how the sheer size of it all means we are pretty much stuck here. One interesting bit, used often by SF writers before him, is how any generation starships going out there will have no connection to Earth after a generation.

Of course give Rosie O'Donnell a few more cheesecakes and she'll turn into a black hole and draw the rest of the galaxy closer...