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It also might be the answer to the fermi paradox
yea… large time scales, quiet neighbourhood, goldilocks zone, fuckton of water and jupiter as warden. If I were life I’d defo develop there
We chillin
We’re in space jail because we don’t play nice with others.
Also because we horny
Also because earth is a deathworld
Aka quarantine.
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.
And “trapped” is an interesting way to frame it. I was under the impression that its a boon for life - less astronomical neighbors means less stuff to interrupt its development.
Yes, “trapped” might mean fewer nearby aliens to invite us to join their Galactic Federation and explain now to cure cancer and build warp drives, but it also means fewer apocalyptic-size chunks of crap careening around the neighborhood.
Fermi paradox solved: We’re out in the boonies and no self respecting intelligent lifeform would be wasting their time wandering around here
It goes the other way too. Paradox solved: We’re in an island of stability, and life doesn’t get the chance to develop in denser, more chaotic regions.
Unless there is spice here which the Empire needs. Earth’s bio-organic molecules may very well be unique in the entire cosmos.
We have used almost all of our oil. That’s why they don’t want us.
But we have so many ants. You have no idea how lucrative those are to interstellar beings.
God took his shoot in a lonely place. Maybe better so we can’t breed over other places.
Ahhh, fine, I guess it’s my turn anyway. I’ll be back in a bit.
Okay, we’re good.
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?
Meaning that if we don’t immediately accelerate to near the speed of light, we are stuck here.
Huh, that really makes the only livable planet in our entire galaxy just that much more important.
You better start pushing then
So what they‘re saying is that nothing around the world should have me worried?
Oh, that explains… gestures broadly
Why do they got skulls? Are they, like, the baddies?
That’s the fun part, they are all baddies!
Nah, there’s good guys. The problem is they live next to Space Rome and three different kinds of Attila.
They had a based designer, but yeah.
Part of the point is that the Emperor is also not perfect. He got too full of himself which led to his deification against his will. He was also literally an imperialist and an authoritarian.
As I interpret the lore his intentions were largely noble but his hubris and refusal to acknowledge the existence of the Chaos gods led to the disillusionment of many of his kids/generals, thus leading to the Horus Heresy and the shitty state of the 41st millennium.
Quoting THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND:
“Guys im not a god, just a man”I’ll go and see whos knocking on my door now.
Though joking aside, yeah that was the issue. He was just human. Powerful one, but still a human.
And a genocidal fascist.
It’s not subtle.
Who knew we were on a chaos world trapped in the warp forever begging tortured for the amusement of the rich and powerful…
Bow to the dark ones and be set free kinda deal
Everything is in a giant void, dipshit. It came for free with the expansion of the universe
Not sure of the specifics on the article, but astronomical voids are their own specific thing, not just the vacuum of space.
Oh yeah? Well I have the oldest universe known to man.
Yeah but what is this void made of?!
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
Not to mention good weather in the neighborhood, no gamma ray bursts nesrby or supernova or whatnot
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.
on purpose heh. wouldnt be polite to drop us into polite galactic society as barbaric as we are
Yeah it’s like a couple hours into the party there’s that one guy who has a lot of distance around him because he’s already cornered everyone individually to ramble at them about his dumb hobby
Yeah, I figure once (signs of) life showed up in the atmosphere, galactic civilization probably started isolation/quarantine procedures until we can show we are actually social, civil, and communal instead of violent, competitive, and individualistic.
