fifty thousand miles away, and the missile that goes to it goes about, say, ten thousand miles an hour, why, did you know some of those closest stars, if you traveled at the rate of a hundred eighty-six thousand miles a second, it would take you a million years to get there? a man to visit that star would have to live to be a million years old, and he’d have to travel at a hundred eighty-six thousand miles a second to arrive at it. and that’s a close one. there are stars out there that are billions and billions and trillions of light years away! and for a man 