“Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away – I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there – but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.”

“Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away – I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there – but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.”

— Randall Munroe