The Milkiest of Milky Ways

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Mar 21, 2006 10:16 AMNov 5, 2019 12:33 AM

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'I have to admit, this is brilliant. It's clearly designed as a web meme. I have seen no commercials on TV for it, nothing on the radio; just ads on various high-profile websites. I never poke around flash-driven websites, yet I found myself enthralled. The commercial vignettes are damn funny, too. There's a "Galaxy Quest" feel to them, and that's not a bad idea at all.

Not that I believe aliens are abducting cows: like I've been saying for years, why keep repeatedly traveling thousands of light years to excoriate a few cow anuses at a time, when you can do it just once and clone all the cow anuses you need at home?'

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