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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Asterix” being some spin on the latin word for “star”, aster.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Asterix the Gaul

      You claiming that I’m not a star? tok tok tok

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      • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oublie-ix that line of thought!

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Due to the fact that his name is a pun of asterisk. *

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  • CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sputnik is a fun word in Russian. It comes from the prefix s- (with), the suffix -nik (one who), and the root -put- (path). A sputnik, then, is someone or something who travels a path with you, and it is also a model of train (because it travels with the tracks) and a word for spouse (because they travel your life’s path with you).

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      so, “pathfinder”?

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      • Limerance@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        More like companion.

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      • CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

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    • GargleBlaster@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In (some parts of Germany) a Sputnik is a sausage with a slice of cheese in it, wrapped in bacon, pierced by a toothpick and baked in the oven.

      Was looking for a picture of one and found none. So now I’m contemplating if I’m going insane.

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      • CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Russians call Germans “nemtsy” or “the mute ones” because allegedly the Germans were the first ethnic group the Russians encountered who didn’t speak their language and so they assumed they couldn’t speak at all. The sausage sounds delicious, though, so maybe they just weren’t speaking because they were eating cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped sausages.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Is it a specific sausage or any sausage because no reason I’m not hungry

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    • xzinik@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i find that incredibly fascinating and also so emotional like pure poetry in just one word, neat

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fascinating, so it means 🇨🇿 spolucestovatel/spolupoutník or 🇩🇪 Mitreisender

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure the model of train is a proper name and it’s named after the satellite. I don’t think I would describe any train as a literal “sputnik” of the rails.

      Also Russian is full of composite words like that. “Explorer” in russian would be “исследователь” (issledovatel’) - ис (completely) + след (trace/footstep) + оват (make, imbue) + ель (he who). Literally it would be “he who makes (places) completely (covered in) footsteps”

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Canada was the 4th country with a satellite, and the 3rd country to fully construct its own satellite. It called that satellite Alouette 1, followed by Alouette 2, then ISIS 1 and 2 (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies, not the other one).

    The list of launches is pretty funny.

    • Sputnik 1 (success); USSR
    • Sputnik 2 (success); USSR

    Then an absolutely frantic series of US attempts

    • Vanguard 1A (failure); USA
    • Explorer 1 (success); USA
    • Vanguard 1B (failure); USA
    • Explorer 2 (failure); USA
    • Vanguard 1C (success); USA
    • Explorer 3 (success); USA
    • Vanguard 2A (failure); USA

    Then another Sputnik

    • Sputnik 3 (success); USSR

    Then more frantic attempts by the USA

    • Vanguard 2B (failure); USA
    • Vanguard 2C (failure); USA
    • Explorer 4 (success); USA
    • Pioneer 0 (failure); USA
    • Pioneer 5 (failure); USA
    • Vanguard 2D (failure); USA
    • Pioneer 1 (partial success); USA
    • Beacon 1 (failure); USA
    • Pioneer 2 (failure); USA

    Then 1959 started with Luna 1, a partially successful launch from the USSR.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Mild confusing, Pioneer 5 launched before Pioneer 1? Whose bright idea was that?

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oops, I messed up. That should have been Explorer 5.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I read in another place that Japan was the fourth to launch a satellite in February of 1970, it looks like that other article means ‘launched using their own rocktet’, and Canada launched 8 years earlier than Japan using NASA rocket

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Everybody wants to make their own achievement sound better.

        • The UK was the third country with a satellite, but didn’t fully build their own satellite.
        • Canada was the fourth, but third to fully build their own satellite, but they didn’t use their own rocket.
        • Italy was the fifth and also launched a satellite they built, but used an American rocket.
        • France was the sixth country with a satellite, but the first to launch outside the US or USSR using their own rocket.
        • Australia was the seventh country with a satellite, but the third to launch a satellite in its own territory; France launched from Algeria in 1965 which had been independent since 1962. But, Australia used an American rocket, not its own design.
        • West Germany was the eighth country with a satellite, but it was launched from a US rocket on a US base.
        • Japan was the ninth country with a satellite, but it used its own rocket from its own territory. So, 9th with a satellite, 5th to launch outside the US and USSR, 4th to launch from its own territory, and 4th to launch with its own rocket.
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  • wpb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not to get too “um actually” on this but Sputnik 1 predates Explorer 1

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    • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does any part of this suggest otherwise?

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      • wpb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes.

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  • aketawi@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    china really went 60% of the way to naming their satellite Touhou Koumakyou

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The second first Touhou game.

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    AN INDOMITABLE GAULISH NAME FOR AN INDOMITABLE GAULISH SATELLITE!

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ils sont fous, ces Française.

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ils? Peut-être “nous”?

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      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Je suis anglais. But also I was trying to keep the catchphrase intact.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Was that live action movie any good or just an acid trip?

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    • RustySharp@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The new animated series on Netflix is great, very much in the spirit of the original comics. I didn’t like the live action thing at all and couldn’t get very far into it.

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Named ours after a bird and funny kid’s song.

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  • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “The East is Red” is a pretty fire name ngl

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