Vote for Stephen Colbert!

[DaRizzle]

Name a room in the Space Station after him! He is leading the vote by telling fans to write his name in as their choice (just his last name)

LINK to story

LINK to voting

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

just voted against him.

 

[huevonkiller]

No problem, voted for him.

 

[hasoos]

Just voted for him from 10 different computers to nullify your NAY!

 

[Minstrel]

Voted for Colbert. We need a space station Colbert.

 

[Anima]

I voted for Colbert. I'm looking forward to watching the Colbert launch while eating my Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream ice cream.

 

[OddEnormous]

Votud fer Kolbear!

 

[AgentDrazenPetrovic]

voted for myyearbook!

 

[maxiep]

I voted for Venture.

 

[Draco]

HAHA Colbert

 

[DaRizzle]

LINK

WASHINGTON – NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.

The name "Colbert" beat out NASA's four suggested options in the space agency's effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.

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 reserves the right to choose an appropriate name. Agency spokesman John Yembrick said NASA will decide in April, but will give top vote-getters "the most consideration."

 

[huevonkiller]

It better be Colbert, punks. :O

 

[Master Shake]

NASA has to put Colbert.

 

[mook]

I assume the whole point of this exercise was to raise awareness of the space program. Hard to imagine how they could've been more successful without Colbert's effort.

If NASA is smart, they'll compromise. Name the section whatever they want, and the recycling toilet Colbert. It would be The Colbert Memorial Toilet (silent second "t").

Hard to imagine the Colbert Nation being dissatisfied with that.

 

[speeds]

Why wouldn't they stick to their promise to name it what the people wanted?

 

[mook]

Why wouldn't they stick to their promise to name it what the people wanted?

A basic sense of dignity and respect for the space program. I would think the people behind the program feel too much responsibility to all the employees and the millions in tax dollars to allow it to become a joke/marketing tool for Colbert.

I'm a huge fan of Colbert, and it's a great prank. But the space program isn't a minor league hockey team or an obscure spider (other things he's had his name plastered on to very humorous affect). It's a serious business that people have paid a lot of money for and died for. It shouldn't be trivialized in this way.

They should throw him a comic bone (aka the toilet) and leave it at that.

 

[speeds]

On their site they reserved the right to use another name they deemed appropriate with consideration to the voting results, but I don't think naming a room after him is so undignified.

 

[speeds]

NASA has backed out, naming the node Tranquility instead.

 

[maxiep]

I heard on NPR this morning that they gave a treadmill in the ISS the acronym C.O.L.B.E.R.T. Of course, I was half asleep, so I could have been dreaming.

 

[mook]

I wasn't too far off in my guess. They named their treadmill after him (I guess my toilet idea was too low brow). They threw him a token that allows the space program to retain its dignity while still recognizing a good publicity stunt when it smacks them in the face.

 

[Anima]

NASA and Colbert reach compromise: I want to work out on COLBERT