What a person meaning when talk about estelar distances?

The person is talking about grandiosity, the person is saying of things that are 100 or 10000 bor this elevated to higher numbers, what is in the space, we commonly talking of distance that is much bigger than anything that you find in Earth, so genius, when talk about the space, are talking about greatness that are bigger than you could see in Earth, but of course star are so small in the Sky and the distance make them look small, so intelligent people like to talk about outer space is only flowery speech, the longer travel by train in Europe that also pass for Asia can't be bigger then stellar distances if you got to coast of EUA in Florida and travel in a road to reach the Lo Angeles in the other coast is smaller distance than a stellar distances.  Rute Bezerra de Menezes Gondim