# So what's the deal with the "Galactic Alignment"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399 "2012-05-29T00:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399/221 "2012-07-20T08:59:19Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It’s absolute crap-misinformation, misdirection, speculation, distortion. I couldn’t have said it better myself. ---
**Author:** ![garbonzo607](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@garbonzo607](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garbonzo607)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399/222 "2012-08-05T21:00:24Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It’s absolute crap-misinformation, misdirection, speculation, distortion. Did you watch it? Imagine if you told a Christian that about the Bible. Do you think it would help them any? Of course not. They need to know exactly what about it is wrong. That’s how you get them to see the truth. I’m not seeing that here at all. It’s just wild claim with nothing to back it up. Set a time in which a subject is mentioned and counter it. Simple. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399/223 "2012-08-05T21:16:31Z")
> [@garbonzo607](#): > > Did you watch it? Imagine if you told a Christian that about the Bible. Do you think it would help them any? Of course not. They need to know exactly what about it is wrong. That’s how you get them to see the truth. I’m not seeing that here at all. It’s just wild claim with nothing to back it up. Set a time in which a subject is mentioned and counter it. Simple. I’m not wading through that conglomeration of crap again to give you a claim by claim analysis. Why don’t you pick out the single most convincing claim in that steaming pile and we’ll take a look at it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399/224 "2012-08-05T21:53:06Z")
> [@garbonzo607](#): > > Did you watch it? Imagine if you told a Christian that about the Bible. Do you think it would help them any? Of course not. They need to know exactly what about it is wrong. That’s how you get them to see the truth. I’m not seeing that here at all. It’s just wild claim with nothing to back it up. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You supply a list of wild-ass claims, then say that anyone who disagrees is making a wild claim? Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![vrmlstudent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@vrmlstudent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vrmlstudent)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399/225 "2012-11-19T06:30:16Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > There is no conceivable means of space travel in which this could matter. The earth is just a spinning rock in space. The exact direction in which the earth is currently spinning has fuck-all to do with anything reaching earth. > > I’m not sure what kind of cite you want, if you won’t accept a NASA website written by an actual astronomer. Cecil is not an astronomer, he’s just going to call NASA himself and report what they say. What if perhaps you had the capability of interstellar travel, and you were planning a trip to an inhabited star system, but you had no way of knowing whether the inhabitants were friendly or hostile. Maybe it would be safest if they didn’t know your course of travel and therefore couldn’t follow your flight path back to your origin of travel (your home world). Would the Galactic Alignment not provide you with the adequate cover you needed if their sun blocked the view of nearly the entire galaxy when you made your trip to their star system? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-the-galactic-alignment/623399.md?page=11)