Sol isn't the center of the universe, our star is only one of billions and it has to go somewhere.
Plus Sol is actually in one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. We're closer to the 'Galactic Boundary' then to the Center of the Galaxy.
Formerly known as Armsman from June 2008 to June 20, 2012 PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
Just remember that you're standing
On a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second
(So it's reckoned)
A sun that is the source of all our power;
The sun and you and me
And all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way!
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just 3000 lightyears wide;
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go 'round every 200,000 years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe!
- Monty Python, "The Galaxy Song", from The Meaning of Life
Just remember that you're standing
On a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second
(So it's reckoned)
A sun that is the source of all our power;
The sun and you and me
And all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way!
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just 3000 lightyears wide;
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go 'round every 200,000 years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe!
- Monty Python, "The Galaxy Song", from The Meaning of Life
'Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.'
'But to be logical is not to be right', and 'nothing' on God's earth could ever 'make it' right!'
Judge Dan Haywood
'As l speak now, the words are forming in my head.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I realized that I mistranscribed one number in there - it's supposed to be 200,000,000 years, not 200,000 - but the last time I tried to fix a typo my entire post vanished, so I think I'll just leave that flub up there.
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Plus Sol is actually in one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. We're closer to the 'Galactic Boundary' then to the Center of the Galaxy.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
On a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second
(So it's reckoned)
A sun that is the source of all our power;
The sun and you and me
And all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way!
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just 3000 lightyears wide;
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go 'round every 200,000 years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe!
- Monty Python, "The Galaxy Song", from The Meaning of Life
Good stuff. Try this one on for size...
We come in peace, SHOOT TO KILL!
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'