And so the Universe ended.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
Space is really big-REALLY big.
It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.