I think the cow is a metaphor
Spherical cow is a metaphor for highly simplified scientific models of reality. Thus the space travel meets acid combined with the 70's moog music are attempting to reveal a feeling of science as perceived by the masses again linking us back to the cow.
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Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 1:45,
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