Study Finds Earth Located In Lamest Part Of Universe

[yuiyoshida]

[immoderate]

1. Obama!

--imm

[CanonRay]

2. We're a backwater?

Space is very humbling...no wonder no one comes to visit anymore.

[forest444]

3. "We come looking for intelligent life..."

"Oops, we made a mistake."

- the late Robin Williams, impersonating an alien visitor.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. A thought....

The quiescent aspect of where we are may be WHY we are here.

You are where you are at the moment your supposed to be there.

[demwing]

15. Pre-destiny, or what you say

when you're drunk and in a strip club when you're supposed to be at work?

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

16. No real dogmatic aspect....

A Buddhist saying, kinda meaning this is your place at this time, in the overall oneness and completeness of the universe.

In reference to your example, maybe that person by being there, was not in a place that may have been detrimemtal to his or someone else's existance. That's the negative way of viewing it. There could be more positive ways also. Not predestined, just being.

Always food for thought or meditation.

[Scuba]

5. Ours would be better without greedy and mean people.

And especially without greedy, mean people. You know who I mean.

[bjobotts]

19. I am not that voice in my head.I am the obseerver of that voice

Consciousness awareness is the secret. Being always precedes doing.
Awareness means not labeling or judging or talking...just observing. When you just take it in...just observe the observer has no age or sex or identity...it just is. That is presence. Like a dreamer who suddenly becomes aware he is dreaming is no longer just the dreamer. He is now awake and aware. Just be aware of your thinking and the rest will follow.consciousness awareness. -the Zen Diaper

[miyazaki]

6. Or as Lt. Ripley may say, "The ass end of space". n/t

[deutsey]

7. The Onion has really been a roll lately K&R

[Diclotican]

8. yuiyoshida

yuiyoshida

Earth might be a backwater combined to what we have acess out there in space - but it is a perfect place, for life as we know it - and if you look at the grand scale of things - our little planet - full of water - and with a moon who is allmoust 1/2 our own size - and with a kind of cool sun who just act as a sun should when healty - I think we are pretty well off even if a backwater in the universe...

Diclotican

[yuiyoshida]

23. panfluteman seems to agree with you

[n2doc]

9. Maybe so, but we have the best Baseball and Basketball teams! n/t

[ms liberty]

10. Earth: mostly harmless...

And destined to be destroyed in order to make way for a hyper- space bypass.

[C Moon]

11. :D

[niyad]

12. mark twain's "letters from the earth" referred to this as basically a podunk, unimportant after-

thought of the supreme boss.

[SheilaT]

13. Love it!

I just got done talking with my son, the budding astrophysicist. He's doing research on galaxies that are colliding and was telling me the difference between red spheroid galaxies and blue speroid galaxies. Has to do with the most common wavelengths emitted. I believe he said our galaxies is a kind that doesn't fit between either of those, and is a green something galaxy. Our sun would actually be considered green because of something about green wavelength being where most of its light is. Don't quote me on this. Maybe some other astrophysicist posts here on DU and will see this and clarify what I'm trying to say.

[BlueJazz]

20. Yep. I understand. If you buy a Laser, make it a green one. They're the brightest.

Also of interest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-alpha

[padfun]

14. Our solar system

is in a cloud that is about 60 light years long, and near the edge of one of the spiral arms. We are out there and hidden, and that might be a good thing. We are too rich of a planet to be advertising ourselves.

[panfluteman]

17. I Didn't Think the Profanity Was So Cool

And I agree with Yui Yoshida that having a stable and relatively boring interstellar environment provides the optimum conditions for life to evolve and unfold, which doesn't happen in a wowie zowie flash, but over millions, even billions, of years. There are other things about our solar system, I read once, that protect and coddle the earth - like huge planets from Jupiter to Neptune - whose huge gravitational fields attract the vast majority of stray asteroids, and stuff like that, before they can get in to earth. What's boring for astrophysicists is nevertheless cool for the evolution of life as we know it.

[yuiyoshida]

22. I think you were agreeing with Diclotican

I haven't said a thing in regards to this posting, but I did find it rather funny, it is the Onion after all.

[zebonaut]

18. This is a Major Discovery; even though many already suspected it

[WhoIsNumberNone]

21. And the primitive creatures living here still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

More proof.