I am working on some very smart things to say here. Really. Meanwhile, there's 
I am sitting in the smallest room in the house and thinking, Space is crazy. Space is where Euclid's parallel lines never meet. Space is where Einstein's rays of light bend for gravitational winds. Space is almost all of everything there is. Compared to the volume of space around, even the largest structures in the universe that we know of are miniscule and insignificant. Furthermore, physicists tell us that an atom is mostly space. Show a physicist your clenched fist and she'll tell you your fingers aren't touching each other at all. Deep down, in the roaring whilrlwinds of the subatomic world, space, time, information, imagination and anything else there may be, are all appearing, disappearing, twisting and floating away like bubbles beaten up by an energetic child in a foaming bathtub. In such a world, kicking a rock and asking why it hurts could lead you into a world of mind-bending thoughts.
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Space is dark, it is so endless,
When you're lost it's so relentless,
It does not live, it does not die,
Space is neither truth nor lie.
[Hawkwind, Space is Deep]
Posted by: Dunc | August 30, 2007 10:08 AM
Space is big
Space is dark
It's hard to find
A place to park.
Burma Shave.
On a more serious note:
In fact, sometimes parallel lines do meet in space.... it depends what's nearby. The Universe as a whole has Euclidean spatial geometry, but on smaller scales (say, within the Solar System, or within the Galaxy), spacetime is curved, and some parallel lines will meet....
-Rob
Posted by: Rob Knop | August 30, 2007 10:20 AM
"Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Zaphod Beeblebrox
Posted by: Adam | August 30, 2007 10:48 AM
Space is the final frontier.
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | August 31, 2007 9:04 AM