So, been really taken with astronomy recently and loving stargazing and Prof Brian Cox is genius. so i thought i'd share some mind bending facts about the Universe and the distances involved.

Distance
1) The moon is 384,400 km from Earth
2) Mars is on average 225 million km from the earth.
3) The Sun is 149,600,000 km from the Earth.
4) The edge of the Solar System is approximately 9 billion miles from Earth.
5) We are 26-28000 light years away from the Milky Way's central point. Light travels at 299 792 458 metre's / second. 

We are a speck on a speck on a speck of dust in the Universe and distances like those above are just too large to imagine. Can make you feel lonely and empty to think that cosmically, we are very insignificant. Life can be described as a miracle or a planetary disease depending on your outlook, but this i think makes the relationships we have and take part in more, not less important.
 If you can look after and be looked after by your nearest and dearest and also show this commitment to the the rest of our species (and dogs) then we may have a future. We can judge Society by looking at how we treat strangers, criminals and people unlucky to have been born outside of a mythical country border drawn by people in power thousands/hundreds/tens of years ago. Of course we can all choose where and when we are born can't we? No...? Or is it just the EDL and other Fascists who think its ok to discriminate by race? Sorry, off on a tangent there.
Anyway, the point being that if you can find a clear spot on a clear night, grab a telescope or binoculars and look up at the night sky. Not only is it a breathtaking sight, you are also time travelling! The images you are seeing can be minutes, hours or hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of years old depending on how far they are away and how long it has taken the light to reach you. We are small, so enjoy the moments you have on this ridiculously small timeline we have  and remember the greatest advice given to us by Bill and Ted. "Be excellent to each other".
I'll also give you a quote by the late Bill Hicks (praise be to this guy)

"I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace."