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.
It sounds a lot better in Spanish: "Vía Láctea".
the way of milk
Here's a fun one. In Serbian an old name is "Godfather's straw" (straw as in the dry stalks of plants).
Cum path
The Cummy skid mark? Yeah, I know it, I grew up there!
Should have been "Milky Whey."
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).
Milky Ray
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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