Should we keep calling ourselves the Milky Way?

emc · Post by **emc** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:58 pm

Our Milky Way being at the center of today’s 2MASS imaged galactic LAN once again gave cause for me to worry. I really think we should seriously consider changing our name from “Milky Way” to something more apt to strike fear in any hostile aliens capable of intergalactic conquest. What are marauding aliens gonna’ think when they learn we call ourselves the “Milky Way”. They’re gonna’ think we’re a bunch of push-overs and probably eat us for breakfast, that’s what!

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:22 pm

My kids used to belong to a Gateway Park Pool swim club called the 'Gateway Guppies.'

I'm sure we put the fear of god into teams like the 'Barracuda' and the 'Sharks.'

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:49 pm

In Swedish, the Milky Way is called "Vintergatan", "The Street of Winter". (I realize, when I say it in English, that "Vintervägen", "The Road of Winter", would have sounded much better.)

But don't come here, you aliens! We're cold! Cold, cold, cold! We'll freeze your favorite body parts off!

: Click to view full size image

Beware our snowy spiral shape! We'll bite you!

(I found the picture here: http://howdywilcox.org/?p=152)

Told ya so! (Cold Alien by AzraelleWormser)

Ann

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:57 pm

Ann wrote:

Told ya so! (Cold Alien by AzraelleWormser)

Ann

Ann; your alien looks (to me anyway) like a kitty cat!

emc · Post by **emc** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:43 pm

I coached my daughters Fast Pitch Softball teams for ten years. When they were younger they were the T-Birds, Angels and Honey Bears but as they got older we graduated to more sophisticated names like Heartbreakers, Bullets, and Cougars. In the early days, our pitchers struck fear in most every batter!

Say, maybe Ann and Orin are onto something!

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:47 pm

Cats like the Milky Way!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLoR42o_Wuw&NR=1[/youtube]

emc · Post by **emc** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:31 pm

Orin, I couldn’t tell if the cat was having fun or frantic... maybe it was both. It was kind of like that with my early Fast Pitch teams.

If you can imagine a very young girl standing in the batter’s box, still not quite sure if her feet are placed correctly, watching an equally young girl in the pitcher’s circle winding up with something akin to Warner Brothers Taz. The first pitch is hurtled about three or four feet over the umpires head and crashes into the backstop with a loud clang... This did not instill confidence in the outcome for either player. Me, I was encouraged that the ball had at least been over the plate.

My personal SA* adventure can be compared to those young girls’ early experiences with each other. I feel like the “Taz” pitching my wild thoughts into SA*’s backstop. Most of the time, folks at those early ball games would just keep quiet too… likely thinking it to be the most polite reaction. I would, however, hear an occasional chuckle from the less inhibited crowd. The batter’s seldom laughed.

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:25 pm

As for the original question, I think Crispy Crunch is more evocative, more alliterative, and perhaps more literally true of a galaxy, but more importantly, it's tastier.

Rob

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:50 pm

emc wrote:Orin, I couldn’t tell if the cat was having fun or frantic... maybe it was both. It was kind of like that with my early Fast Pitch teams.

Seems like forever ago; but I got the job of coaching my daughters team! I didn't want the job as I had no experience but no body else did either. I talked my neighbor and friend into being my assistant. There were only about 4 girls that showed up for practice each week. They all showed up to play though. You can imagine what a dreadful season we had.

My daughter and her friend were the only two that would pitch for us. Neither one threw very fast.

Still; The highlight of that season was upsetting the top team in the league. They couldn't hit our (slow) fast pitch!

The next season They kicked our butts.

My daughter went on to play for a very successful fast pitch team;so I guess it paid off.

Oh! As faith would have it; My daughter and her friend are now sister in laws. They are married to brothers.

And now I go and watch my granddaughter play in a coach pitch girls team.

rstevenson wrote:As for the original question, I think Crispy Crunch is more evocative, more alliterative, and perhaps more literally true of a galaxy, but more importantly, it's tastier.

Rob

Rob I would think you would prefer Krispy Kreme

emc · Post by **emc** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:03 pm

Rob, I think Crispy Crunch might further stimulate an aggressively hostile Alien’s appetite. We need a name that would repel any such Aliens. I mean, it’s bad enough we have our own social cannibals (people that want to do bad things to other people)… I can only imagine what toll there would be to pay hungry angry evil intergalactic aliens.

I liked Clark bars when I was a kid. I imagined they would give me superpowers so I would eat one while swinging on the school playground swing (it was very tall as I remember). I would try to swing high enough to fly… like Superman!

Orin, I was a volunteer also for pretty much the same reason except I started out with some excellent help. There were a lot of talented girls on our teams. I had some very talented coaching help too. After several coaching clinics for me and a little time, we had a respectable team eventually competing in national tournaments.

I’m looking forward to grandkids someday!

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:58 pm

emc wrote:
I really think we should seriously consider changing our name from “Milky Way” to something more apt to strike fear in any hostile aliens capable of intergalactic conquest. What are marauding aliens gonna’ think when they learn we call ourselves the “Milky Way”. They’re gonna’ think we’re a bunch of push-overs and probably eat us for breakfast, that’s what!

For aliens who aren't already lactose intolerant I should think that the
outer shock wave of 'I Love Lucy' shows ought to provide sufficient protection.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/ThePhoneMessage.htm wrote:
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment. Jerry and Donna:

Jerry: I have never seen one episode of 'I Love Lucy' in my life ever.

Donna: That's amazing.

Jerry: Thank you.

Donna: Is there anything else about you I should know?

Jerry: Yes, I'm lactose intolerant.

Donna: Really?

Jerry: I have no patience for lactose. And I won't stand for it.

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCigarStoreIndian.htm wrote: [Subway train]

Elaine still sits with Ricky the TV anorak. He's poring over the TV Guide.
Elaine is looking like she'd rather be anywhere else.

RICKY: Oh, 'kay, see. On this particular Tuesday (he swaps seats and sits beside
Elaine) you could've watched six hours of Lucy. There's I Love Lucy, The Lucy
Show, Here's Lucy.

The brakes come on as the train pulls into a stop.

ELAINE: Oh, (nervous laugh) my stop. (making her escape) Bye-bye.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... cy#p147402
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... cy#p142559

emc · Post by **emc** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:10 pm

neufer wrote: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... cy#p147402
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... cy#p142559

What is the significance of “hilit=lucy” in the above viewtopic links? Is that part of some code leak devised by NASA that is intended to reveal the true purpose of the Lucy TV show series to the savy public? Is there more to SA* than meets the eye? Never mind, silly question, of course there is… I don’t think in my remaining lifetime will I ever be able to read all of APOD and SA*… even if I figured out how to utilize that APOD featured astronomical digging device to help.

Neufer, you are the most conjunctive person I have ever met... truly a sleuth of sleuths.

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:52 am

hilit=lucy is just the search term art used to find the post. When you do a search it'll try to highlight the word you searched for by putting that in the URL. You could put &hilit=anything and it would highlight anything for you.

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:42 am

emc wrote:
Neufer, you are the most conjunctive person I have ever met...

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- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 4, Scene 7
KING CLAUDIUS: She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,
__ That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
__ I could not BUT by her.

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The conjunctiva is a clear mucous membrane that covers the sclera.
The conjuctiva helps lubricate the eye by producing mucus and tears,

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- Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 1, Scene 3
IAGO: Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him.

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emc · Post by **emc** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:16 am

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

...We don't move in any 'ticular direction,
And we don't make no collections...

You don't have to play,
You can follow or lead the way...

There's a million ways to laugh,
And every one's a path...

The Who - Join Together (excerpts)

Starship Asterisk*

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