Our sun hurtles through the milky-way at 472,000 mph. How does a random event keep it from hitting something?

Question

Is it good ole fashioned luck that our solar system has yet to be side swiped? Or did someone engineer it all?

Ecclesiastes 1:4
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

Isaiah 66:22
“As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain,so will you always be my people,with a name that will never disappear,”

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How can something with no direction avoid a collision for billions of years?
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Answer 1

Our sun hits millions of things every day.

Sorry. Here's a hint: your beliefs are based on numerous falsehoods of this sort.
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"How can something with no direction avoid a collision for billions of years?"

The sun has hit countless trillions of things over those billions of years. Are you paying attention?

Answer 2

I'm sure there is a machinery in the Heavens that scientists have yet to discover, and when they do they will understand why our planet hasn't been bombarded to death. Why not admit that our present continents have, like Lemuria and Atlantis, been several times already submerged, and had the time to re-appear again and bear their new groups of mankind and civilisations; and that at the first great geological upheaval at the next cataclysm, in the series of periodical cataclysms that occur from the beginning to the end of every Round, our already autopsized continents will go down and the Lemurias and Atlantises come up again?

Answer 3

Galaxies and Universes collide all the time. In fact we are a part of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, that has for millions of years been slowly being ripped apart by the Milky way.
Thats why the Mayan Calender ends in December 2012, after that date the fixed stars they used as base points for their calender are no longer accurate.

Answer 4

I those are the end results of : guy shifting far flung from God far flung from nature far flung from guy. the 1st quarter of 2010 observed 3 considerable earthquakes: a million.The Haiti Earthquake: 7.0 magnitude 2.The China Earthquake: 8.6 magnitude 3.The Chile Earthquake: 8.8 magnitude merely watch how long the countries try to come returned out of financial disaster. merely observe what occurred to the completed international while an volcano erupted. merely understand what's happening with the oil spill interior the gulf of Mexico? The earthquack in Haiti, or flood in critical usa. a brilliant form of ordinary issues occurred in 2010. people have forgotten God, who created the Universe and sustains it. If people exchange into religious and are available returned to actuality and honesty the international would be a extra useful place. So, i do no longer see those issues as merely a organic calamities, yet warning to total humanity from God, repent and love one yet another.

Answer 5

A simple, yet not so simple, word known to man as "Grace" is responsible for the flight of this wonderful planet!

If a person thinks outer-space is extremely complex, then one must go into inner-space and learn the complexities there.

This is where one will come to recognize the "Truth".

May we all have a sublime sojourn.

ps...To the one above named Herschel....The Universe is expanding in quantum digits, thus the speed of this planet is increasing. Have you heard the expression, "There is not enough time in the day to get everything done?"...Take some time, think about it!

Answer 6

The universe, even the milky-way, is mostly empty space. Still things hit the sun and even the earth almost daily but most of them aren't big enough to do real damage. Also the speed at which it moves doesn't really increase or decrease the odds it will hit anything, considering everything else is moving too.

Answer 7

The galaxy, well the universe, for that matter, is enormously and incomprehensibly big. The likeliness of two stars or planets ever colliding are about infinity minus one to 1. Galaxies have actually merged with each other, and not a single one of their stars collided in the process.

Answer 8

Comets, asteroids, etc., hit stuff all the time. Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to our own, is 2.5 million light-years away. Eventually, another galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, but we'll be long gone when it happens.

Answer 9

Space is actually extremely empty. It is over 2 light years to the closest star. As we move small objects do occasionally get pulled into our solar system; they become asteroids. Star collisions are extremely rare.

Answer 10

Jupiter and the sun act like big vacuum cleaners sucking up the larger random asteroids and errant comets etc. Only a fool would think it's an invisible being doing this.