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Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
"larger than that of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Betelgeuse is one of the big stars. Our Sun is one of the small stars. There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy. There are a billion other such galaxies within the 22-billion-diameter sphere of observation of Mount Palomar’s 200-inch ‘reflector.’ Ninety-nine percent of the 100 quadrillion ‘known’ stars are beyond the range of the naked eye, but altogether they form, in effect, a thickly galactic, spherical-cloud array omnisurrounding us, at whose 66 quintillion-mile-radius center is located our little Milky Way galaxy and, deep within it, our minuscula solar system, deep within which rotates and orbits our minuscule Earth. That will give you an idea of what a fantastically negligible cosmic speck is this Earth of ours. We are 92 million miles away from the Sun, and we receive all our life supporting energy from it.
“If our local ‘gas station,’ the Sun, ran out of life supporting energy, the next closest refueling star is 25 trillion miles away. Its’light gets 4-2/3 years to get to us-- coming at 700 million miles an hour. So when someone says, ‘Never mind that space stuff-- let’s get down to Earth; Let’s be practical!’ pay no attention. We are nothing but a space program. We are so”
