Our Solar Systems Posititon in the Milky Way

Yesterday afternoon I watched a documentary entitled "The Privileged Planet" by Illustra Media.
Can I just recommend this to everyone? It explains so much and has really opened my eyes.
They talked about something I had never really realized before. Our planet is in the optimum position for scientific study and discovery!
Our Solar system is positioned in the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a spiral galaxy. Now, there is strong evidence that supports the theory, that there is a super massive black hole in the galactic center of out galaxy... That wouldn't be fun to be close to. Thankfully we are about 30,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy, so even if you could travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second,) it would take anywhere between 20,000 - 80,000 years to get to the center of the Milky Way.
Now what about the arms? Spiral arms typically contain more interstellar gas and dust than the Galactic average as well as a high concentration of star formation. So that isn't too safe either. With stars being born and dying it would be very chaotic and dangerous for earth. But we are placed in-between two of the arms. So not only are we in one of the safest parts of the Galaxy, we are also in an amazing viewing position. If we were in an arm we couldn't see anything but the gases and dust, we wouldn't be able to see out into our Galaxy and beyond.
This is just the position of our solar system in the galaxy, our planets position in our solar system is even more perfect and amazing! So I look forward to writing a future post about that :)