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  • Nacktmull@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    So we now have Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Taikonauts and … Hindunauts?

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      11 months ago

      I get you’re joking but for real they haven’t announced yet what they’ll be called. Soon speculation came out that they would use either “vyomanauts” or “gaganauts” which would both translate to “sky… nauts” in Sanskrit

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        11 months ago

        “Hindunauts” was simply the first name I came up with. Maybe that is because India is ruled by a nationalist-theocratic party. However, in the first place I just made a joke and will happily accept good proposals of better/secular names. What name do you propose?