User blog comment:Glflegolas/Human Extinction -- are we approaching the Doomsday?/@comment-50.36.81.25-20150309211911/@comment-25973561-20150312100152

We are not in an arm we are heading torwards one but we arent in one yet yes the orion spur is quite populated but it is dwarfed by the other arms.

And the fact that a single planetoid would get randomly hit by a gamma ray burst in a small town of stars is frankly quite rare