10 Horrifying Distances in Space the Human Brain Can’t Process

The Moon sits 384,000 km away. It is a number that sounds massive, but in reality, it is laughably small compared to the grandeur of the void. If you could hop into a car, maintain a steady 100 km/h, and drive straight up into the sky, you would touch that grey, desolate surface in about 160 days. A commercial jet would get you there in roughly 18 days—a long trip, certainly, but a duration the human mind can still conceptualize.