actornaut
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actornaut (plural actornauts)
- (humorous, derogatory) A person who is claimed to be an astronaut, in the context of conspiracy theories that claim that some or all travel into outer space is faked.
- Synonym: astronot
- 1999, Mary Bennett, David S. Percy, “Photo Call”, in Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 49:
- HJP (“Douglas”) Arnold has expressed the regret that there was only one distant shot of Neil Armstrong near the LM. […] How could Armstrong forget, what about the list of assignments, the mission timeline? Or was he not there? And if he was not there, then was there an actornaut or A N Other astronaut in that pressurised suit?
- 2013 November 6, Warhol, “Not working rockets!!! Fake Satellites!!! Fake Astronauts!!! Fake Moon Images!!!Fake Mars rover!!! Its all Fake fake fake”, in alt.conspiracy[1] (Usenet):
- The reality of the ISS is that its a giant hoax!!! […] But one of the more hilarious aspects of these NASA videos has got to be the constantly incomprehensible NASA jargon the actornauts use to communicate with Houston (and with each other).
- 2019, Andrew Johnson, Acknowledged: A Perspective on the Matters of UFOs, Aliens and Crop Circles, [self-published], →ISBN, page unknown:
- The cattle mutilations continued and people in the area wrote to Senator Harrison Schmitt's (former Apollo astronot/actornaut), which eventually resulted in a mutilation conference being held in the Albuquerque Public Library on April 20, 1979.
- 2019 September 6, Jack Lang, “World of Football: Flat Earth FC seek to broaden their horizons”, in The Athletic[2]:
- A group of fans calling themselves the Flat Hearts has gleefully run with the terraplanismo theme, confecting a whole songbook of chants in double-quick time. […] Another casts doubt on the moon landings, describing “actornauts” suspended on NASA wires.