Originally posted by cdtmThing is, the notion that DB cosmology is so small/confined these days isn't just old... it is not longer canon at all. We now know there are "countless" galaxies within the DBU, and each one is "just like" the Milky Way. IOW, the whole "Snake Way wraps around the universe" thing is no longer relevant.
No less old then Carver harping on Goku taken completely off guard and tanking a bullet as a kid, against modern Dragon Ball policy that characters need to actively maintain defenses (As Krillin demonstrated when he was shot.) 😉Obviously, the Goku of today would have been shot, too, if he was in kid Goku's place.
Further proof of this can be found in DBS itself. It took Whis 3 minutes to fly from King Kai's planet(which is obviously at the end of Snake Way) to earth. Flip side, it took Whis(traveling at max speed, mind you) ~3 hours to fly from earth to the Nameless Planet, at the edge of U7.