Indians reach for the Sanskrit to give their own astronaut a name
Russia has its cosmonauts, America its astronauts and China, since 2003, its "taikonauts". Could "gaganauts" be next?
India is searching for a Sanskrit-based word for a spaceman as its top scientists draw up plans for the country's first manned mission into the cosmos.
(Via Beyond the Beyond.)
My immediate reaction was "All we hear is radio gaga" (Queen - Radio Gaga). My next thought was "Hey, I can't find nothin' on the radio" (R.E.M. - Radio Song).
ReplyDeleteI'm much too puzzled by the fact that I was thinking in song lyrics to wonder why I made a connection between those two particular songs - after all, I was thinking about cosmonauts at the time, not music or radio.
Confused of UK.
Bollynauts?
ReplyDeleteIn other news, that thing is a fucking cock.