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I'd even take "Sombrero" over "Milky Way"

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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 22 points 2 days ago

We're mamalians

It is our duty to name our galaxy something related to tiddies

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

'galaxy' is also named after titties, if you haven't seen that meme yet

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Fun fact: the word “galaxy” has the root of “milk” in it. It’s dairy all the way down.

Galactic / lactic

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The good old milky milk.

[-] kplaceholder@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

It sounds a lot better in Spanish: "Vía Láctea".

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

the way of milk

[-] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Here's a fun one. In Serbian an old name is "Godfather's straw" (straw as in the dry stalks of plants).

[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

The Cummy skid mark? Yeah, I know it, I grew up there!

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Should have been "Milky Whey."

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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).

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Sombrero galaxy is boss

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago

I mean, if anyone embodied the term better, I've not seen her. 🔥😱🫠

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

milky way (when i remembered it right) the scientific name
have to go now, hope someone who is informed can agree/disagree here

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