Chapter 4

CHAPTER 4

TRAVELING IN GALACTIC STYLE WITH PROFESSOR VEXINGTON VILEBRAIN

ARE YOU SITTING DOWN? I'M ABOUT TO BLOW YOUR MIND. ARE YOU READY? HERE GOES... SPACE IS BIG. WAIT, THAT DIDN'T DO IT? Maybe you didn't hear me properly.

SPACE. IS. BIIIIG. Okay, this is clearly not doing it. The problem is our tiny human brains just can't understand how stupidly big space really is. We get bored walking to school, for goodness' sake. THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO EXPLAIN HOW BIG SPACE REALLY IS: to fly across the Galaxy in a spaceship. What's that? Okay, I'm being told the spaceship that? repairs. Let's go with the SECOND-best way, shall we? We'll make a scale drawing of our Solar System and go from there.

MERCURY! VENUS! EARTH! MARS! JUPITER! SATURN!

URANUS (TEE HEE!) NEPTUNE!