I thought you were setting up yourself for a play on words, but I don't get it. Kicking the can? Fal-can?
Is "starship" not already generic enough?
Is "starship" not already generic enough?
i suspect once space travel is common and every day enough it will become mundane to talk about it and at that point an improper noun like ‘can’ will become commonplace. i figure this will happen 2 to 3 decades from now
It is anyway nothing at all like what we call a starship in any other context. It resembles a shuttle rather more than STS did.
It is unfortunate that we don't have a short name for "suppository", which it resembles more. I guess "bougie" could work.