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Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest
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."
It's not mentioned in the article, but what brought this all up in the first place was the fact that "Xenu" was winning the write-in vote before he asked viewers on his show to write in his own name instead. Xenu is the galactic overlord from Scientology myth. Colbert asked his viewers to write in his own name, and the following day he had already passed Xenu on the write-ins. The show that evening, he declared himself the new galactic overlord.
Incidentally, NASA reserved the write to call it whatever they want; they don't have to go with the vote.
I hardly think that a 3.3% margin of defeat is worthy of the adjective "clobbering".
From the article: "NASA reserves the right to choose an appropriate name."
This is awful. I've heard him pronounce his *own* name different ways on his show.
As I understand it, The Colbert Report is "the coal bear rapport" most of the time, but it was temporarily changed to "the coal bert report" during the first quarter of 2008 to signify the more improvisational format that the striking Writers Guild of America forced on Colbert. Likewise, The Daily Show got replaced with A Daily Show .
You clearly don't watch his show. He often talks about Nasa and space stuff. He even did a couple of interviews with astronauts aboard the ISS.
Mada mada dane.
Good, while their messing with tourists we can do real research. Here's the list of experiments done on each expedition.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/Expedition.html
And no, just because these don't mean anything to you does not mean they mean nothing to anyone else.
I liked Serenity not because of the show, but because it fits well with the other two modules Unity and Harmony. If this were the first to be named, I'd definitely advocate honoring a scientists, but as sysadmin knows, having a consistent naming scheme is nice.
It's a silly thing related to tons of urban myths where if you say a name, that person/force/thing will kidnap you. So, the joke is that "Candlejack" works on the internet, too, to steal awa
Tang.
Funny and insightful are not mutually exclusive. Clearly those mods were awarded by someone who found resonance with the truth illucidated therein. Even if they don't outright want to mess around, certainly it now strikes them as incredibly naive that someone would think a married father unlikely to see a whore or cheat.
Kaylee is by far the hottest actress from Firefly. Just sayin'
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I had to look up that attempt at a meme... I should have guessed it is from 4chan/b/ since it isn't funny, and has no intellectual appeal for anyone above perhaps fourteen.
I miss the days when /. had its own lame memes, and didn't have to import them from a bunch of adolescents. At least then the memes were fitting of the medium, meaning somewhat dorky.
Sorry for the nasty post, I just don't get the humor.
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I am tired of this God Damned Shit.
4chan did not create the Candlejack meme. It existed long before 4chan did. Years before I ever saw a 'funny picture' of Candlejack on the internet, my friends and I made the Candlejack joke all the damn time.
See, once upon a time, there was a show called Freakazoid!. It was funny as hell, but its target audience (children) didn't quite understand the humour.
However, some of us still have fond memories of the show, as it's one of those rare gems that gets funnier as you get older -- because you can appreciate more of the humour.
For the love of $DEITY, quick giving 4chan credit it doesn't deserve.
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"