Don't get too excited. We haven't made it to any other stars yet. They're really far away. Like, really, really, really far away. With current technology, it would take us... the better part of a hundred thousand years to get to the nearest one. [Space is really big, Enjolras. So big.] Well, that's actually with some of the slower propulsion systems; I've got tons of ideas for much better ones, and you could get up to much higher speeds over that amount of time as long as you had enough fuel for acceleration and deceleration and took into account the relativistic—

[It belatedly occurrs to Tony that someone who needed "space" explained to them is probably not going to appreciate the finer points of relativity.]

Uh... long story short, we're not going to be flying to other stars until we figure out how to really fuck with the laws of physics. It's possible, because I've seen it, but humanity still has a ways to go. [Unless there's enough left of the Makluan ship's drive to salvage. In which case fuck yeah Tony's gonna make an FTL drive when he gets home. Just you wait.]

But we've got some robots on Mars, and we got people to the moon. Technically the armor could go to the moon, but it would take a couple days to get there, so it would be a pretty boring ride.

[You think you can talk a lot about politics and history, Enjolras? Just wait till you hear Tony really get going about SCIENCE.]