Just to put things in perspective, space is a HUGE emptiness, sprinkled very, very lightly with stars. The nearest star to our sun, Proxima Centuri, is 4.3 light years away. That's 5.88 trillion miles away. If you fired a pistol bullet in space it would take just under a million years to cover the distance. That's assuming you fired with the proper swing and lead, of course.
So with trillions of miles between stars, it would be easy for a bullet to travel for eons without coming within sniffing distance of anything. The odds of running into something are literally astronomical.
So with trillions of miles between stars, it would be easy for a bullet to travel for eons without coming within sniffing distance of anything. The odds of running into something are literally astronomical.