Oh, that explains... gestures broadly

We got put in time-out.

Galactic Quarantine.

Saw a video about this. Apparently galactic voids are pretty hard to enter for reasons that elude my 6am brain. Something to do with gravity.

I looked into it, and it’s our whole galaxy that’s maybe in a void. There’s plenty of space inside our galaxy to not give a shit about what’s not here.

We're in space jail because we don't play nice with others.

It's a good thing the rate of catastrophic collisions with neighboring bodies is at its lowest in a void. At this point we may as well assume our lack of neighbors was beneficial to our being here in the first place

"They're made of cheesits."
"Cheesits?"
"Cheesits. Those orange fuzzy things that crunch. One of their world leaders even looks like one."
"But how do they communicate?"
"They rub their cheesit bodies together to make non-commital sounds like 'I cant even' "
"That's too weird. Let's quarantine this place and get the hell out of here."
"Agreed. At least they cant harm us out here."
David Blaine teleports behind them both with a pack of cards.

on purpose heh. wouldnt be polite to drop us into polite galactic society as barbaric as we are

Would it help if we got out and pushed?

Everything is in a giant void, dipshit. It came for free with the expansion of the universe

Fermi paradox solved: We're out in the boonies and no self respecting intelligent lifeform would be wasting their time wandering around here

It also might be the answer to the fermi paradox

it actually might be the reason we're around, because in more "populated" areas, unfortunate cosmic events are more frequent too

Interesting story but not even remotely "BREAKING!" I read about this a year or two ago. Apparently the solar system is in a fairly star-sparse region of space.

When your whole solar system is a backwoods shithole that doesn't even have a space applebee's.

What do they mean "trapped"? Is it a bad thing? Does it have any effect on anything earth-related? Is earth being held there by an unknown force?

Holy crap! trump is really screwing up, on a galactic scale. /s

Not again!

Aka quarantine.

So that's why God is ignoring us. Earth rolled into his couch cushions and got lost.

So what they‘re saying is that nothing around the world should have me worried?

One thing's for sure, I'm going to sit at home and criticize every well-intentioned solution made in good faith that I see posted on the internet while I plant my eyes on a screen all day doing nothing substantial to help solve the problem or support the ones who might be able to make a difference.

It's not.

Isn't stuff like this in the drake equation or something more up to date? Lack of activity or the right amount probably helps life.

Just give it a few million years.

God took his shoot in a lonely place. Maybe better so we can't breed over other places.

Probably the pre-Sol star that burst a lot of matter out, and we’re something that was left somehow.

Ahhh, fine, I guess it's my turn anyway. I'll be back in a bit.

Wait, so we're being quarantined? Yea, that makes sense.