We got put in time-out.

Galactic Quarantine.

Oh, that explains... gestures broadly

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.

Why do they got skulls? Are they, like, the baddies?

That's the fun part, they are all baddies!

Not again!

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

"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.

Just give it a few million years.

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.

They had a based designer, but yeah.

I think it's to do with the combined gravity of the "strings" of galaxies, stars, etc. being far stronger than nearly nothing.

But there’s an AI drive-thru.

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

So a black hill.

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

In astronomy, Galaxy clusters are just areas where the density of galaxies is above average and voids are areas where the density is below average. Galaxies attract each other, so the material for Galaxy clusters has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is voids.

It's not.

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.

Millions? Ah!

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

Oh yeah? Well I have the oldest universe known to man.

They're Made out of Meat

Yeah but what is this void made of?!

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.

Cheez Its

My first thought.

Bow to the dark ones and be set free kinda deal

Would it help if we got out and pushed?

That's stellar not galactic scale

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

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.

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

Even then not.

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

Not sure of the specifics on the article, but astronomical voids are their own specific thing, not just the vacuum of space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_(astronomy)

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.

That and dark energy. Although this may apply for cosim super-voids and not a void in a cluster, but the expansion of space is faster in areas of space that have less mass than cosmic strings. So if someone built a ship and tried to enter a void they would have to overcome the 'escape' (not really but I don't care enough to use the correct terms correctly) velocity of the galaxy, and the expanding space ahead of them.

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

It's basically the same reason why it's so hard to leave Earth. You can't just jump. Or fly in an aeroplane. You need a rocket with enough fuel. Otherwise you will fall back down again.

Not to mention good weather in the neighborhood, no gamma ray bursts nesrby or supernova or whatnot

And Pizza the Hutt

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

Dark matter just makes voids more isolated from each other. Our void is still within the greater Laniakea Supercluster, but our immediate area is very sparse. The only galactic merger that the Milky Way will experience is with Andromeda in 1.5 billion years, and maybe with Traingulum a bit after. But there will be a ton happening in the Virgo Cluster next door as those galaxies are all close enough to each other that gravity is the predominant force in the region. But the galaxies in the middle of the cluster will gather towards their gravitational center, while the galaxies at the periphery of the cluster will form a "shell" of sorts. Voids are just the bubbles that remain from the gathering of clusters.

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

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.

Also because we horny