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Old June 24th 04, 09:40 PM
Del Rawlins
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In pacplyer wrote:
Ron Wanttaja wrote snip


By the way, NASA has "Astronauts," Russia has "Cosmonauts." We need
a name for the ordinary folks who fly on SpaceShipOne: I hereby
suggest "Commonauts" for those lucky SOBs who get to ride Burt's
space bird. Ron Wanttaja


Naa. These people are colonizing space in a much more efficient
manner than the government ever could. For the first time manned space
is going to be commercially viable. I would think "Colonaut" would
be a much better name for them.


That's appropriate, because just the thought of going up in one of those
things is enough to tie my colon in a knot.

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