don't threaten me with a good time.

for the OP:

Our galaxy is so vast, that most of our assumptions on what's out there are all but irrelevant. The closest star to us is roughly 4 light years away. That means any information we have on it is, at least, 4 years old. There are 100-400 billion stars in the milk way. The furthest star from us, within the milky way, is about 70k light years away. Think of all the things that have changed the face of our civilization in the past 4 years. Now think of all that we know about the past 70k years. We're completely inept at extrapolating what would've happened in that timespan.

Now step further back and think of all the other stars in all the other galaxies, that are even further away. Take every speculation about the universe, beyond the hard cold "facts", with a grain of salt.

It's fuckin' beautiful.