Of course, if you want to have a relatively standard "gigameter" yard stick, the diameter of our rather average sun is about 1.4 GIGAMETERS. And the distance from the earth to the sun is about 150 gigameters, which distance is also called an "ASTRONOMICAL UNIT." Hence, a gigameter is about the biggest unit of distance we need to live with for this 21st century. A single "terameter" would probably take us out beyond our solar system. To enable men to travel beyond our solar system will require energy systems and transportation vehicles that are still beyond the imagination of most intelligent men. Bottom line... we are the only intelligent life in the who fricken universe... and that's a measurable fact. So. let's get it right this time.

Rather, to put the GIGAMETER into perspective, on the smallest side, we have the smallest practical unit of measure called an "angstrom." And 10 billion of them make up just one meter. or 10 of them equal one "nanometer." And everyone knows by now that "nano-technology" is the only place to hide your venture capital profits to avoid taxes. Angstroms are used to measure the size of atoms and molecules... and nothing real gets much smaller than atoms in the REAL world. More relevantly, the diameter of a single hydrogen atom is about ONE Angstrom. Who needs to worry about anything smaller than an atom of Hydrogen? Putting 10 gigajoules of them into a bucket is a very demanding task. BUT, GIGMEDIA knows how to do that.

However, in the non-real world of CERN Switzerland, we are trying to measure a "particle" that is so small it can EXCLUSIVELY be assigned the magic property of being the cause of all mass in all atoms and particles. Unfortunately to prove the existence of that particle and define how the universe was born, and to also prove that the universe was conceived by an extra-universe physicist, the world is spending gigabucks of tax money to generate billions of gigabytes of data at billions of gigabits/sec to be processed by super computers running at billions of gigaflops of instructions per second... all to keep theoretical physicists happy as they ski in the Alps on their weekends.

GIGABOGUS, dude! The REAL world of hydrogen generation, storage and use in a Vertical Take Off Personal Aircraft Vehicle is where we need to spend our money for the rest of the 21st Century.