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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."
"NASA's mistake was allowing write-ins.
No! It was NASA's genius to get a name-brand late-night comedy show host as a major unpaid endorsement to a multi-billion dollar government money pit, I mean research program.
"Stephen Colbert gets drunk and runs over a widow and her three childeren. He then goes on and exposes himself to a church choir. Colbert is undergoing drug testing. [...] Nasa plans for a decommissioning of the Colbert module by burning up in the atmosphere."
Yeah, right, like they'll name a module after someone who has given and done absolutely nothing for/to the space program.
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
You're saying that the way Obama speaks is "bombastic?" I don't think you know what that word means.
That or someone may be trying to make a (racist?) comparison between President Obama and reggae singer Shaggy.
Did you even know there was an addition to the space station before it was on The Colbert Report? I didn't.
Did that stop you from trying to turn the name of it into a joke?
-=Maggie Leber=-