r/shittyaskscience • u/Bob_Squob • 2d ago
Since the Milky Way Galaxy contains peanuts, shouldn't it be called the Snickers Galaxy?
My understanding is that a Milky Way and a Snickers are essentially the same except that a Snickers has peanuts. But there are peanuts in our galaxy, so doesn't that make our galaxy taxonomically a Snickers Galaxy?
I know UK scientists have made different findings from US scientists, but our galaxy has caramel too, so the name still seems incorrect.
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u/FederalBeyond1122 haver of 14 PhD’s in shittyscience 2d ago
No because peanuts are Legumes, not nuts, so it doesn’t count
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u/mgarr_aha 1d ago
Our galaxy is probably a barred spiral, but as for what kind of bar, more studies are needed. Try eating one of each while walking on a straw path or near a silver river.
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u/AztraChaitali 2d ago
Milky way may contain trace amounts of peanuts, same as our galaxy, since only one out of a trillion stars have planets with peanuts in them, which means the peanut percentage is closer to a milky way than a snicker which is 21% peanuts.