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To: MtnClimber

♪ Don’t know much about ‘stro-no-my ♪ ... but I’m struck by how big that galaxy is. It’s width is about the same as the distance from Earth to the nearest galaxy-like mass near us, the Magellanic Clouds ... or one could say as wide as the distance between galaxies in our neck of the woods. Galactic!


6 posted on 04/18/2024 2:00:44 PM PDT by Tellurian (Any cleverness from a democrat is quickly invested in deception)
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To: Tellurian
When are the wokesters going to start objecting to words like "galaxy" and "galactic"? It's a very provincial term, based on the name of the Milky Way. Gala is Greek for "milk" (genitive case galaktos), hence "galaxy" for the Milky Way (until about 100 years ago astronomers didn't realize that there was a huge number of other galaxies out there, many larger than our own).

Being woke means you can never run out of things to get upset about.

8 posted on 04/18/2024 2:53:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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