Ivan Shmakov wrote to Roy Witt:

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

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

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

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

 IS>     It doesn't.  Not to me, at the least, for it flies just too fast
 IS>     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.

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

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


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