Milkyway Memes

The cosmic irony of stargazing has never been so deliciously captured! When astronomers say "we're looking at the Milky Way," they mean the spectacular spiral galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars that we call home. What we're seeing here is the budget version—a chocolate bar with caramel that costs approximately 200 billion times less than NASA's annual budget. Our actual galaxy spans 100,000 light-years across, while this one spans about 10 centimeters and disappears in approximately 47 seconds of enthusiastic consumption. The only stellar fusion happening here is between chocolate and saliva.

NASA spends billions on Mars rovers, and this is what they send back? A candy bar on a red planet? Classic space agency budget justification right there. The wordplay is deliciously astronomical - our galaxy (the actual Milky Way) viewed from our neighboring planet (Mars). If only interplanetary travel were as simple as unwrapping a chocolate bar. Meanwhile, actual astronomers are still trying to explain to their families that no, they can't see aliens through their telescopes.