Oh, that explains... gestures broadly

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 got put in time-out.

Galactic Quarantine.

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

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.

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

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

Would it help if we got out and pushed?

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

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

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.

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

Not again!

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.

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