In just a few short months, fifteen years of research involving the associations between gamma-ray bursts and Galactic neutron stars was made largely obsolete. The gamma-ray bursts, with their combination of angular isotropy and spatial inhomogeneity, possess a distribution unlike that of any other known Galactic object. Several hundred years ago, when the Earth was considered to be the center of the universe, with all the planets, stars, and the heavens revolving around it, these results might have been hailed as proof of the geocentric universe. However, we live in the 20th century and are now well aware that the Earth is not at the center of anything. We are not at the center of the solar system, and we are not at the center of the Galaxy.
Nature has a way of answering the scientist's questions with more fundamental questions.