They could have named our galaxy anything and this is what we got
They could have named our galaxy anything and this is what we got
I'd even take "Sombrero" over "Milky Way"
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It sounds a lot better in Spanish: "Vía Láctea".
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the way of milk
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Here's a fun one. In Serbian an old name is "Godfather's straw" (straw as in the dry stalks of plants).
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Cum path
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The Cummy skid mark? Yeah, I know it, I grew up there!
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Should have been "Milky Whey."
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I mean, if anyone embodied the term better, I've not seen her. 🔥😱🫠
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Milfy Way, or Milfky Way.
\ (Aka The way of the milf.)It's such a shitty joke (my brainhole entertains itself in the stupidest, nonsensical, basic ways).
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milky way (when i remembered it right) the scientific name
have to go now, hope someone who is informed can agree/disagree here -
Milky Ray
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On Cosmos (the original), Carl Sagan goes through a lot of the names for the part of the galactic spiral that we see at night in places without light pollution. A lot of them revolved around milk, but one that really stuck in my mind was ‘the backbone of the night.’ I think it might have been from an Aboriginal Australian culture, but it’s been so long I couldn’t say for sure.
Fun fact: the word “galaxy” has the root of “milk” in it. It’s dairy all the way down.
Galactic / lactic
The good old milky milk.