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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. RIP by 222 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    RIP Battletoad :(

    1. Re:RIP by MrEricSir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And they say Colbert is a /b/tard...

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    2. Re:RIP by T+Murphy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Parent is not offtopic (I'd mod it funny if I had points)- Battletoad was brought up in the other thread about the ISS/Colbert news. Mourning the loss of other favorite names is certainly on topic.

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  2. Uncritical media breaks democracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's funny when a comedian manipulates the population via the media to get his name attached to a space station. It's dangerous when politicians do the same to kill hundreds of thousands of people in the name of democracy.

  3. I crap on Colbert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    While I enjoy the humor of the story if he is serious about this he needs beat.

  4. D'oh! by inertia187 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lousy French.

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  5. Re:Democracy at work by unlametheweak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The most bombastic speaker who appeals to the most retards wins.

    I don't want to say anything about our current President, but...

    You may be confusing Obama with Bush