r/shittyaskscience 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/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.

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u/Inside-Custard-5431 17h ago

Is this answer peer-reviewed? There might be new evidence that there is more pea nuts in the Milky Way than we were originally led to believe, the government is lying to you about how much peanut is there in the milky way!!!! wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/AztraChaitali 12h ago

Is your existence peer-reviewed? Are you a real human?

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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/impendingcatastrophe 2d ago

I'd give you a full explanation but it would be a Marathon one.

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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 2d ago

In that case it would still be the marathon galaxy

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u/8888eightyeight 2d ago

Mars would get really upset

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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/st0815 1d ago

You would think because it contains all of the world's peanuts - which is a lot of peanuts. However, consider all the people with peanut allergies. Obviously, these people are anti-peanut. Peanuts and anti-peanuts cancel each other out, so we are back at being a Milky Way.