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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Or we're in a black hole, which would explain why everything seems to be moving away from us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

What if vacuum decay has happened, and we evolved on a planet that formed in the new vacuum state?

That would account for the void we live in, as everything would be erased by the expansion of the new lower level vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

The universe saw how we’re wreaking ourselves and decided to put us in quarantine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This really reminds me of Peter F Hamilton's novels about the Void 🙃 (Void Trilogy and Chronicle of the Fallers)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I'll see you at the House of Blue Petals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

Not really horrifying. You're misconstruing the astronomy meaning of "void" as your own colloquial understanding. It just means a place where there is meaningfully less matter than was predicted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Unless someone has amazing roaming access, I guess so.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I can't be the only one who immediately thought "e pluribus anus" can I?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I just see the chaos star and … does this mean we get warp soon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Could there be a better moto for the modern US?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

The next probe we sent out of the solar system should just have a goatse pic on it so the local bunch would immediately know our position.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

We changed that in 2620 now it's urectum.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good.

That'll protect everyone else from us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

can you imagine how many planet-to-planet salesspacemen there are outside of The Void

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Webb telescope confirms: We're trapped in the Void of Chaos!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

I could really use some scale on this image. Are these the galactic filaments of the laniakea supercluster?

As it stands, Sol and the interstellar gas cloud it and a couple hundred other stars reside within are in the middle of a 100-parsec-wide void where stellar density drops to near zero which we have named "the local bubble" in the Orion Spur connecting two arms of the Milky Way right now.

It is far from the first time a structure we're part of is in the middle of nothing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s the only thing bigger than the void in my heart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for the good laugh! I really needed that.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

By looking at the red arrows: chaos confirmed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yes inquisitor, this post right here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Hang on a minute. Those arrows only point in 2 dimensions!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We've drifted into Warp space! Why aren't we building armies to defend ourselves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ICE is our new adeptus arbites

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I thought that was the whole point of the post!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you seen Earth? Can you blame whatever for putting us in a void?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I blame Yogg Sothoth

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that would certainly explain why we seem to be alone out here

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Our galaxy cluster is in a void. There are still plenty of stars in our own galaxy that should be able to support life.

Even if we were in a more densely populated area of the universe the next galaxy would still be millions of lightyears away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Technically the nearest galaxy to us doesn't have a name, just a designation, and is only like 10,000 stars, but it's currently about 10,000-15,000 light years away, so we're actually closer to the center of that galaxy than we are to our own, and possibly were closer to everything in that galaxy than we are the center of The Milky Way. The Milky Way is expected to absorb that galaxy into itself in the next few hundred million years though, IIRC.

Also Andromeda and The Milky Way are already "touching" each other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You one of them book types? If not, we YouTube the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Bit o column A, bit o column B

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

ROFL over here - 👏

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t that a slightly circular reasoning?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i haven't had my coffee yet, whys that circular?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let me put it another way: let’s presume that we haven’t been in contact for the last 1000years, how close by should other stars be to us, so that we were indeed contacted by extraterrestrials in the last 1000 years?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The way I understand it, the whole "paradox" is more: If we aren't the first culture-producing life, and if technological life is not an exceptionally rare occurence, and if technological life is persistent and not (almost) always fleeting - going by the age of other stars and their exoplanets in the galaxy, we would expect there to be signs of life visible in abundance (e.g. electromagnetic waves of clearly artificial origin as "background chatter").

The fact that this isn't so, indicates that something about that assumption has to be wrong. What exactly, we cannot easily say, and theories go all the way from "Life like humanity really is exceedingly rare and needs very special circumstances and 'luck'" to "technological life quickly evolves to a point, where it doesn't produce any signs like that" to "there is a great filter still ahead of us, which extinguishes life wherever it arises" to "life behaves according to Dark Forest rules and actively tries to stay hidden".

But all of those are currently just wild speculation. The only thing certain is, that we have found none of the abundance of chatter we would expect from many worlds having had more time than our Earth to theoretically develop life akin to our own. And the most we so far have noticed are some sporadic signs that may hint at basic life, e.g. on K2-18b, but it is all in the "very fuzzy and uncertain" ballpark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I wasn’t primarily discussing the paradox as a whole, just the tiny issue presented here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Two things to add

  1. we are quite early in the age of the universe so intelligent life that wants to communicate probably hasn't formed yet
  2. we haven't been looking quite that long and the stars are a big place