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Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS

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The ’nym-shifting troll wrote as “Jason Wyome”:

> British astronaut to travel to International Space Station
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/14/c_134916462.htm
> 
> "Tim Peake will become Britain's first official astronaut to visit the
> International Space Station(ISS) if his mission, which will start from a
> launch center in Kazakhstan at 11:03 a.m. (GMT) on Tuesday, becomes
> successful."
> 
> :)
> 
> Aren't knowing what the word *astro* stands for. How can you have an
> astronaut without a celestial body?

You are such an obnoxious idiot.  OK, sorry, that wasn’t news.

An astronaut actually does _not_ require a celestial body.   But if you need 
to split hairs, the space station is the “celestial body” here as it is 
outside Earth’s atmosphere.

Now FOAD.

*PLONK*


PointedEars
-- 
Q: How many theoretical physicists specializing in general relativity
   does it take to change a light bulb?  
A: Two: one to hold the bulb and one to rotate the universe.
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British astronaut to travel to ISS Jason Wyome <jasonw@hotmail.org> - 2015-12-14 17:15 +0000
  Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 12:47 -0800
    Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Jason Wyome <jasonw@hotmail.org> - 2015-12-14 21:15 +0000
      Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-16 17:17 -0800
  Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-14 22:40 +0100
    Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Jason Wyome <jasonw@hotmail.org> - 2015-12-14 22:15 +0000
      Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Jürgen Großenbuch <jurgengb@adenauer.org> - 2015-12-15 15:12 +0000
        Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-15 09:56 -0600
        Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Jürgen Großenbach <jurgengb@adenauer.org> - 2015-12-15 22:27 +0000
      Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-15 09:54 -0600
        Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Jürgen Großenbach <jurgengb@adenauer.org> - 2015-12-15 16:03 +0000
          Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-15 20:17 -0600
  Re: British astronaut to travel to ISS Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-12-14 14:46 -0800

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