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NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert
willith writes "The SF Chronicle reports on the results of the International Space Station Node 3 naming contest (which we previously discussed). Comedian and fake-pundit Stephen Colbert conducted a bombastic write-in campaign and repeatedly urged his show's fan base (the 'Colbert Nation') to stuff the ballot box with his name, which resulted in 'Colbert' coming in first in the write-in contest with almost a quarter-million votes. Although the Node 3 component will not be named 'Colbert' — NASA has instead chosen to call it 'Tranquility' — one of the Node 3 components will bear the honor: the second ISS treadmill, which will be installed in Node 3, will be named the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. The formal announcement was made on the air yesterday at 22:30 EDT on the Colbert Report by astronaut Sunita Williams."
Yet-another-Viking probe the successful repair/upgrade missions to the Hubble Space Telescope
Unremarkable low-orbit mission building a space station
Unremarkable low-orbit mission any of the 2700 other successes they've had
All unremarkable low-orbit missions and yet-another-Viking probes, exactly as my original post indicated--and all wasting billions of $ doing nothing particularly remarkable or original.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.