Nautical
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I - Travel (physical)
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II - Inquiry (mental)
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geonaut
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cars, bicycles, mountain climbing
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geologists, seismologists, volcanologists
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aeronaut
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airplanes, hand gliders, bungie jumping, and maybe roller coasters
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aeronautical engineers, meteorologists
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aquanaut
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swimming, S.C.U.B.A. diving, submarines, boating, canoeing
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oceanographers, marine biologist
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astronaut,
cosmonaut
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orbiting the Earth, Moon, Mars or landing on a extraterrestrial
planet or moon.
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pilots and mission specialists for NASA or the Mir Space Station
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psychonaut
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meditating, using psychotropic drugs or medications
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neuroscience, biopsychology, consciousness research
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cybernaut
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surfing the Web, finding information or collecting knowledge via
search engines interacting with WWW via virtual reality
A sort of psychonautics?
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designing Web pages or making programs for the Internet or the
World Wide Web
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chrononaut
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time travel presumably via wormhole transit
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astroengineering with astrophysical knowledge and presumed future
technology
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cryonaut
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suspended animation through cryonics
a sort of chrononautics?
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cryobiologist, cryogenic engineering for tissue, organ and organism
preservation
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bionaut
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biological transformation possibly by transgenics through
homeotic gene hybridization. chimeras?
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genetic engineers, fertility doctors
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