Yeah. More like the electrician mean-mugged the box opening.

>until one night you look up and realize you can no longer see any other stars at all. Terrifying.

Yes that will prolly take 5 Billion years tho.

>Imagine during a galaxy merge, being on a planet

I imagine living on a planet in one of the systems on the bridge right now and seeing 2 "Milky Ways" on both horizons at night. That would be awesome.

I kind of imagine it like 200 years ago people saying "man I was born too early, in the distant future people might be flying in the air".

I bet if we lived during that time we would view space travel as mundane and common occurrence, kind of how we view modern aircraft now.