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.
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 1y
We're mamalians
It is our duty to name our galaxy something related to tiddies
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
'galaxy' is also named after titties, if you haven't seen that meme yet
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
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 · 8 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
The good old milky milk.
kplaceholder@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
It sounds a lot better in Spanish: "Vía Láctea".
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
the way of milk
some_random_nick@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Cum path
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
The Cummy skid mark? Yeah, I know it, I grew up there!
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Should have been "Milky Whey."
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
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).
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Milky Ray
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
milky way (when i remembered it right) the scientific name
have to go now, hope someone who is informed can agree/disagree here
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 1y
I mean, if anyone embodied the term better, I've not seen her. 🔥😱🫠