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December 20, 2006

Via Galactica

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This certainly puts a different spin on the name of everybody's favourite battlestar.

... the early Romans conceived the thickest band of stars in the sky as the Via Galactica, the Way of Milk, from which we get our familiar expression the Milky Way. To them and to the Greeks this was literally a mist of milk across the heavens, spurted upward from the breasts of the earth goddess, Hera.
- Robert Anton Wilson, Ishtar Rising

I think RAW is engaged in a little hyperbole here; the Romans were perfectly capable of metaphor. Still, it is a nice accidental origin for the word galaxy.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 20, 2006 07:21 AM

Comments

Hmmm... Battlestar Goddess-breastmilk doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

Posted by: Chris Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 09:50 AM

Sounds more like a ship from "Andromeda". 8-]

Posted by: The_Campblog [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 10:02 AM

Not for the galactica intolerant? There is a pun here somewhere but it is not coming to me.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 10:04 AM

Lol...well I am sure the producers of Galactica will be milking the show for all its worth.

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 10:25 AM

You do know that Tricia Helfer will be appearing in Playboy next month, yes? Somehow, that seems relevant to this general mammary theme....

Posted by: utron [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 10:52 AM

I will now demonstrate my high nerdiness quotient by pointing out that RAW has his Latin and Greek confused. Milky Way in Latin is Via Lactea, and in Greek is Galaxias Kuklos.

I will now blast my nerdiness quotient through the ceiling by contemplating whether Number Six's mammary glands are, indeed, fully functional.

Posted by: Varenius [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 02:48 PM

While I am having nerd shame for having not noticed this; I have, as you know, a little Latin and less Greek.

Posted by: Ghost of a flea [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 03:10 PM