Starship Asterisk*

So is there any advantage for beings living on a planet orbiting a star of being in a galaxy? If our galaxy was in the midst of colliding with another, would there be any important difference from life in the non-colliding milky way?

A science page with an international audience shouldn't describe something as "traditional" without saying what tradition they're referring to. According to wikipedia: "The Maine Farmers' Almanac from around the 1930s began to publish Native American "Indian" full moon names...