We may be in a void, but we are only a few billion years from colliding with the Andromeda Galaxy.
Yakko’s Universe - The Animaniacs
Everybody lives on a street in a city
Or a village or a town for what it’s worth.
And they’re all inside a country which is part of a continent
That sits upon a planet known as Earth.
And the Earth is a ball full of oceans and some mountains
Which is out there spinning silently in space.
And living on that Earth are the plants and the animals
And also the entire human race.
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and we’re not.
And we’re part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long.
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth’s the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong.
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley’s Comet too.
And there’s over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view.
And still it’s all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
It’s sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that’s just a fraction of the way.
‘Cause there’s a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
Though we don’t know how it got here
We’re an important part here
It’s a big universe and it’s ours!
The “holes” in the Universe are stupendous...
Don’t I know it.
I always knew that we were in the low rent district.
Not a bad place to be, more galaxies mean more stars forming, means more super and hyper nova, means more chance of planet getting blasted by sterilizing radiation....
Sometimes it’s good to be in the sticks....
I hate when spiderwebs are on my swiss cheese.
Therefore I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I hate when spiderwebs are on my swiss cheese.
Therefore I reject your reality and substitute my own.
No ***t Sherlock.
Now, how about how do we get rid of killer koranimals?
Y'know, something relevant to our lives?
Why give anyone in space my address? I can’t even get my local mail delivered correctly to my home.
No use pissing off some powerful space aliens.
Bfl
A God who created everything, placed us in the perfect place in the universe. Fantastic!
We’re in the rural Nevada of the Universe. :)
Also bear in mind that our poles “point” to specific regions of the milky way since our orbital plane is perpendicular to the galaxy orbital plane.
Our north pole points through the thickest portion through the galaxy center 80K light years to the opposite edge. Our south pole points to the nearer galaxy edge, around 35K light years away.
We need to be in a region of rare debris, for obvious reasons.
Check out the sky on a moonless night in a dark place such as northern Arizona. You are looking at a view as if you were travelling through interstellar space. There is nothing else to see.
The void surrounding us makes us unique. Located anywhere else, the beightness of surrounding galaxies would wash out our ability to see back into the early stages of our universe.
According to research carried out by Amy Barger’s team at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the void that contains our Milky Way is huge, spherical, and contains not only our own local supercluster but many superclusters beyond that. Although simulations predict voids ranging from tens of millions of light years up to a few billion, our measurements haven’t gotten good enough to measure the largest voids precisely. With a radius of roughly one billion light years, the void containing our Milky Way, known as the KBC void (for scientists Keenan, Barger, and Cowie), is the largest confirmed void in the Universe.
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That’s because we’re rare and special.
The author is a flaming homo, so naturally he thinks of it as below average.
Maybe we are in a good neighborhood. We moved away from all the riffraff.
Who cares?