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The cosmic truth we never appreciate on road trips! While one passenger is having an existential crisis about stellar distances, the other is blissfully enjoying the view.
Thank goodness stars are very far away! If Proxima Centauri decided to take a shortcut through our solar system, we'd have bigger problems than "are we there yet?" The gravitational chaos would turn Earth into cosmic roadkill.
Next time someone complains about the 4.3 light-year distance to our nearest stellar neighbor, remind them it's actually the perfect social distancing. Any closer and we'd be dealing with planetary orbits doing the celestial equivalent of a 12-car pileup.
