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I mean, in real terms, even something as "small" in cosmic terms as a Solar System is still incomprehensibly huge to human minds.But with a solar system, we know how big that stuff
Like, if you've ever lived in the country, and you know lots of little interesting details about the land just around you, weird nooks and crannys, funny points in the landscape, then think about how the whole earth is covered in stuff like that, and that mars and venus and mercury all have pretty much similar amounts of quirks, then that Jupiter and gas giants have thousands of times the surface area, and that's not even getting into all the moons and asteroids, of which there are astronomical amounts, then remember that something like 98% of the Solar Systems mass is in the Sun, and then that the Solar System in totality is almost entirely empty space, and you may begin to get an idea of just how little you can really comprehend its vastness.