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Milky Way

Milky Way
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About Milky Way

The Milky Way or Milky Way Galaxy is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars in other arms of the galaxy, which are so far away that they cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

On the show21 mentions total

The Milky Way is supposedly corrugated — it's like a disc of matter and stars, but it has ridges in it.

from No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 at 00:12:30 · read transcript

Other times Milky Way came up

  1. They made the vacuum, anyway, very cool. Forrest Mars was very eccentric. As in, he was a bit of a tyrant, he would get his executives on their knees, praying in meetings, he would lead them in prayers, saying, I pray for Milky Way, I pray for Snickers. The success of it, or like literally for a bar of... He was a tyrant, I think domestically, as well, his adult son, John, once asked to miss a sales meeting.

    513: No Such Thing As Upside-Down Space Rain, 2024-01-11 · listen

  2. Wow. I saw a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world and the number one is called Tiana 2. It's in China and that means Milky Way because it can do as many calculations per second as there are stars in the Milky Way. The interesting thing I thought is it's been number one for four years. It's a lot faster than one below it as well.

    No Such Thing As A Pokemon-Playing Goldfish, 2015-02-20 · listen

  3. Really? I saw a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world and the number one is called Tian'e 2. It's in China and that means Milky Way because it can do as many calculations per second as there are stars in the Milky Way. The interesting thing I thought is it's been number one for four years. It's a lot faster than one below it as well.

    48: No Such Thing As A Pokemon-Playing Goldfish, 2015-02-21 · listen

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