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What's the Difference Between Cosmonauts and Astronauts?
Is this just a vestige of Cold War?
Educate DanS.
Educate DanS.
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Re: What's the Difference Between Cosmonauts and Astronauts?
Yep.Originally posted by DanS
Is this just a vestige of Cold War?
Educate DanS.
Not an issue to most people, so probably won't ever be changed. At least, not for a few decades would be my guess.The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
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Yep. When the Kommies sent Gagarin into space as a cosmonaut, the Amerikos had to come up with another fancy name. The Russians won that one, obviously...
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
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Oh, but wait a second, Hueij. No Kommies, no Kosmonauts, right?
I think Russia should recognize that "cosmonauts" is a lame throwback to the USSR and change it to something more civilized.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Cosmonauts sail through space and Astronauts sail to the stars. I don't know what Taikonauts do.
"Cosmonaut" is the better word.
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What are the Chinese going to call their spacemen once they get their act together?
Astronauts is a better word, because it describes a greater struggle--to sail to the stars.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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'Commie'-nauts?Originally posted by DanS
What are the Chinese going to call their spacemen once they get their act together?
Seriously, I don't have any problems with Communists...never bothered me. I'm a believer of Democracy, but not necessarily in pure USA-form. Riddled with problems this government is...The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
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Only after you'll change your already lame "astronauts" to more lame "astro-nuts".Originally posted by DanS
I think Russia should recognize that "cosmonauts" is a lame throwback to the USSR and change it to something more civilized.Comment
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In Chinese, of course.Originally posted by DanS
What are the Chinese going to call their spacemen once they get their act together?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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"In Chinese, of course."
Touche.
"Only after you'll change your already lame "astronauts" to more lame "astro-nuts"."
Is that a form of trail mix?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Trail mix?
WTF is that?
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Got it.
Yep. "Astro-nuts' wearing "astro-sneakers".Comment
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What ever happened to the "spacemen" from the 1930's?Visit First Cultural Industries
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I prefer space-wayfarer myself.
That, or zero-G-ranger.Comment
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