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There is a lot of awful naming throughout the scientific community, but "Milky Way" has long been my personal least favorite. '...the Andromeda Galaxy will hav
by standardUser 6y ago
There is a lot of awful naming throughout the scientific community, but "Milky Way" has long been my personal least favorite.
'...the Andromeda Galaxy will have collided with the Milky Way, which will thereafter merge to form a galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda"'
Now it's my second least favorite.
- dredmorbius 6y agohttps://www.etymonline.com/word/galaxy#etymonline_v_1225 https://www.etymonline.com/word/galaxy#etymonline_v_1225
- 627467 6y agoMaybe you'll prefer the original (dead-language) Latin version: Via Lactea. Sounds cooler to me, maybe because it's a Dead language name.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoSounds like how the Ancients in StarGate series would call it.
- darkvertex 6y agoIncidentally that is exactly what we call it in Spanish. Fun tangential fact: "Star Wars" in Spanish is known as "Galaxy Wars" (La Guerra de Las Galaxias.)
- cheerlessbog 6y agoWell "Andro-milk" sounds like a muscle supplement..
- Sharlin 6y ago"Galaxy" and "lactation" share etymology. Funny, isn't it? …and it's not like the scientific community even existed when Milky Way was named like that in English.