Giving the Milky Way More Arms | Dead Planets Society

Galaxies come in only a few shapes, which are all very round looking. You’ve got spirals and you’ve got blobs. Not content with this boring assortment, Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte want to shake things up a bit.
First up they want to give our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, more arms. One, two… eight? As many as possible. But they don’t stop at “octogalaxy”. They also ponder on what it would take to defy the laws of physics and create a giraffe-shaped galaxy.
Aided by Vivian U, an astronomer at UC Irvine, the team discusses whether smashing galaxies together would help in their quest, how shooting black holes into orbit via rail gun may create interesting patterns and whether the galaxy sculpture can be made using dark matter.
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos - from punching a hole in a planet to unifying the asteroid belt to destroying the sun - and subjects them to the laws of physics to see how they fare.
Your hosts are Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte.
If you have a cosmic object you’d like to figure out how to destroy, email the team at [e-mail]. It may just feature in a later episode.
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[@JoshPhoenix11]

Where I came from, looking up at the sky at night was always an awe inspiring thing. Not because of light pollution, and not because of Auroras, but because we were looking back in at the Milky Way Galaxy from the outer edge.
From the location of this current Earth you only see half of that.
Our Earth and Solar System was on the end of the Carina-Sagittarius Arm Spiral, on the very outer edge of the Milky Way.
Approx. 75,000 light years away, on the opposite side of the Galactic Core from the location of this Earth and Solar System.
The Mandela Effect doesn't just involve trivial logo and spelling changes. And there is a plethora of evidence.
This Galactic location ME has arguably the most credible evidence and proof than any other, because theres multiple residue from Carl Sagan stating the location. One case he's even in front of a classroom and has drawn the Milky Way on the blackboard, where he points the the location of Earth on the very outer edge.
Theres residue from Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk program returning from a commercial break he gives the location he is in the studio zooming out to its Galactic and Local Group location. Then the very first sentence of Douglas Adams's 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' has it. And approx. 80% of the classic 'You Are Here' ↘️ images of the Galaxy are the outer edge.

[@wjfox2006]

I don't find galaxy shapes "boring" at all.

[@DurgeshKumarYadav.]

And I'm fly!😀

[@graemepennell]

I gave up after 50 seconds "octo galaxy", as over enough time the arms dissappear and meld into flatness.

[@WideCuriosity]

So, when young it's rushing round & round, arms everywhere, but when older it becomes a more sedate blob shape. Are you sure you weren't discussing human beings ?

[@AllenJohn]

Watching and listening to Leah Crane makes me wanna yawn and take a nap; there are moments where her voice seems like it is in a perpetual yawning state. 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱