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[–] waz 2 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: the word "spaceman" was originally used to described a journalist who was paid by how much space they could fill. Quoting etymonline com: "journalist paid by the length of copy".

It didn't get used to describe a person from space until the the 1940s.