• Konala Koala@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    For some reason, this got me imagining someone announcing over the intercom, “PREPARE STARSHIP FOR LUDICROUS SPEED! FASTEN ALL SEATBELTS! SECURE ALL ENTRANCES AND EXITS! CLOSE ALL SHOPS IN THE MALL! CANCEL THE THREE RING CIRCUS! SECURE ALL ANIMALS IN THE ZOO!” and the next thing you know, we are going so fast that we end up leaving our galaxy, pass through two others, and end up on the far side of Triangulum, the galaxy known as M33, and we have traveled over two million seven hundred thousand light years in just a few seconds.