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Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• beckerist@lemmy.world ⁨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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  • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh no if they go with gaganauts…

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  • Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would be kind of an understatement, wouldn’t it?

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• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would India have the only name based on religion?

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  • Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just made a joke and will happily accept good proposals of better/secular names. “Hindunauts” was simply the first name I came up with. What name do you propose?

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish we’d just have an internationally standardized term for this…

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