Every single person you have ever loved, met, or even passed in the street lives in exactly the same place. Granted, that place is pretty big by the standards of, say, Aradippou, but when you look at the universe as a whole, the roughly 200 million square miles of land surface on Earth is vanishingly small by comparison…
Our Galaxy is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km from end to end. IC 1101 – the biggest galaxy discovered to date – is over 60 times its size. And then (deep breath!) there’s The Universe: a thing so massive we simply have no idea where it begins and ends. It really puts things into perspective (especially if you’re from Aradippou!): we’re all just global citizens of one small planet. And it’s this idea that makes the work of the Columba project so valuable, especially on an island with a man-made divide.
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