It's so BIG. It's just... hard to get my head around. I mean, I know it's huge, but I'm used to living in a country that you can drive between the furthest points within a day.

A friend of mine used to say that the European idea of a nation-state was as far as they could drive in one day, and that they could never truly grasp how big the US, Canada, Australia, etc. are without driving across them. :)

Someone at work has now scrawled next to the cartoon, "Hey, my daughter has an MSc in Maths!" (And, she later told me, a BSc in Nuclear Physics.)

That is awesome.