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  • Re: astronaut

    From Ivan Shmakov@2:5020/400 to Roy Witt on Tue Jun 12 22:37:52 2018
    From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@violet.siamics.net>

    "RW" == Roy Witt <Roy.Witt@f22.n387.z1.fidonet.org> writes:
    Ivan Shmakov wrote to Roy Witt:

    [...]

    Astro has been in use for centurys, as in astrology and many other endeavors.

    The point is that Greek "astron" means "star," but as of yet,
    there're no known cases of any /astronaut/ actually reaching any
    /star./ (Including Sol, for several reasons.)

    But there is no 'n' in astro, even if the word was derived from the
    Greek word astron.

    FWIW, there is no "es" in "naut," either.

    A star is something regarded as resembling such a celestial body.
    When you see the glowing body of the International Space Station
    (ISS) fly overhead, that fits the description of a star.

    It doesn't. Not to me, at the least, for it flies just too fast
    to be a star. (Why, it moves even faster than the planets!)

    But then, neither can I understand Japanese using "aoi hoshi"
    (= blue star) to mean Earth.

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  • From Roy Witt@1:387/22 to Ivan Shmakov on Tue Jun 12 14:57:40 2018
    Ivan Shmakov wrote to Roy Witt:

    But there is no 'n' in astro, even if the word was derived from the
    Greek word astron.

    FWIW, there is no "es" in "naut," either.

    I agree with that, but, nauts does indicate more than one naut.

    A star is something regarded as resembling such a celestial body.
    When you see the glowing body of the International Space Station
    (ISS) fly overhead, that fits the description of a star.

    It doesn't. Not to me, at the least, for it flies just too fast
    to be a star. (Why, it moves even faster than the planets!)

    A meteor is often referred to as a shooting star...y'all had one of those
    fly over and crash land into Russia recently.

    But then, neither can I understand Japanese using "aoi hoshi"
    (= blue star) to mean Earth.

    They were probably impressed by the photos taken from the moon that show
    the Earth in blue.


    R\%/itt


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