This afternoon I completed my 45th trip around our sun at approximately 67,000 mph, or about 26 billion miles. During that same time, however, the sun also traveled .00002% of it's orbit around our galaxy, or about 220 billion miles. Our galaxy, meanwhile, has actually been gaining speed, accelerating through space away from the Big Bang and toward the Great Attractor at 670,000 mph covering about 260 billion miles. Add it all up and I've logged over 500 billion miles on this rock. It sounds pretty impressive until you realize it's less than a tenth of a light year. The nearest stars to our own are the Alpha Centauri triple at over 4 light years away. I think I'll drink a beer and ponder my own insignificance.