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Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the unintended-consequences dept.

As we speculated a couple of weeks back, it has come to pass. Reader mknewman writes to tell us that comedian Stephen Colbert has won the vote to have his name immortalized (or at least until it crashes) as the moniker on NASA's newest addition to the International Space Station. We can but wonder what NASA will do now. "NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, 'The Colbert Report' to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time the contest ended Friday."

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  1. Re:Slight Exageration by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I take it you skipped a few lessons in maths... and common sense.

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  2. stupid by p51d007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyone that thinks NASA will pick the idiot from the Comedy channel is sorely mistaken.

  3. Re:NASA won by unlametheweak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Unfortunately for NASA, this is the reason most people would want to get rid of NASA, because it would be many thousands of times more cost efficient to develop those things directly for utilitarian Earth bound industries rather than having indirect spin-offs through NASA. What a waste :(

  4. Re:NASA won by maxume · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Go away, troll.

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