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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."
Maybe we could get the toilets named RIAA or something?
How long did it take them to come up with the acronym "Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"?
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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.
You better watch your back Article Summary writer. Colbert doesn't take kindly to your type of folk who honor bears.
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To be fair, they DID say from the beginning that they reserved the right to pick a name themselves regardless of the poll's outcome.
This is exactly the same idea behind the Electoral College.
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"Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill"
The "Treadmill" is silent.
At least they didn't name the the commode Serenity. The number of brown coats floating in their own anger would be horrible.
What was wrong with "Node 3"?
Why do you ask, Child 1?
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A social networking website that apparently doesn't know how to sanitize its databases.
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The results of this poll seem to suggest otherwise. Little Bobby Table's mom would be proud.
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Cause I was just about to watch Colbert
Double :(
Now we should start a write-in campaign to name a space station toilet after Bill Marr.
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Fox would though. Where's the fun in cancelling a show if you can't use your IP rights to stop the fans mentioning it/naming things after ships in it later.
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treadmill they will be walking all over Colbert?
Hilarious! I'll wager he gets a kick out of it, too.
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I'm not sure if it's on a par with the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society, though admittedly in the universe in which is exists it is not really a backronym.
which is totally what she said
the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
Or NAMBLA
Maybe it was all a PR stunt.
Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
I don't know. Maybe NASA could have named the whole module: Cosmic Operating Living Bubble for Environment, Refridgeration, and Treadmill. But now, Colbert will have to create his own module and send it up there: Comedian Over-Lord Base for the Earthly Reign of Terror.
It's not hard to come up with acronyms.
You mean, a contrived reduction of nomenclature, yielding mnemonics?
That's what I say!
It's tacky if people in space have to say, "I'm going to the toilet", into a radio that might be heard by anyone on Earth. Instead, they would be able to say, "I'm going to file a Colbert Report."
Isn't that better?
"We don't typically name U.S. space station hardware after living people and this is no exception," Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said, adding: "We have invited Stephen to Florida for the launch of COLBERT and to Houston to try out a version of the treadmill that astronauts train on."
Should Stephen be concerned for his safety? /TinfoilHat
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