A Demonstration of the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy.1. "The filament of star clusters and small galaxies around the Milky Way is like the umbilical cord that fed our galaxy during its youth."

"What we have discovered is evidence for the cosmic thread that connects us to the vast expanse of the universe," says Dr Stefan Keller of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ANU.

Australians to Blame for this one

ordinary matter is driven, like foam on the crest of a wave, into vast interconnected sheets and filaments stretched over enormous cosmic voids – "much like the structure of a kitchen sponge."
"Unlike a sponge, however, gravity draws the material .blah blah blah...more wacko scientist metaphors."  JK Knube sez "we'll see if we can clean this mess up."