Colbert Wins Space Station Name Contest 471
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."
Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:5, Informative)
Incidentally, NASA reserved the write to call it whatever they want; they don't have to go with the vote.
Slight Exageration (Score:3, Informative)
Not so fast... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:4, Informative)
That's too bad..
My information may be out of date, but at one time Scientologists were told they needed to have scientology-approved censorware on their computers, and one of the things that the banned words was "xenu" (apparently to protect the scientologists from encountering a website that would kill them.)
It would have been hilarious if ever website that contained a reference to the space station would have been blocked.
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:5, Informative)
Incidentally, NASA reserved the write to call it whatever they want; they don't have to go with the vote.
I suspect it's as likely to be named "Colbert" as Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf is to become People's Most Beautiful Person.
Re:Slight Exageration (Score:1, Informative)
He's just using % to mean percentage points. I wouldn't do it, but I don't think it's unheard of. Your arrogance s unwarranted.
Re:Slight Exageration (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:3, Informative)
Only if you remove the attached Thetans first, though, right?
Coal bear, except for the WGA strike (Score:5, Informative)
This is awful. I've heard him pronounce his *own* name different ways on his show.
As I understand it, The Colbert Report is "the coal bear rapport" most of the time, but it was temporarily changed to "the coal bert report" during the first quarter of 2008 [wikipedia.org] to signify the more improvisational format that the striking Writers Guild of America forced on Colbert. Likewise, The Daily Show got replaced with A Daily Show [wikipedia.org].
Re:News from 2015 (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not so fast... (Score:3, Informative)
I'm sure Joss Whedon fans may have had something to do with it, but naming Node 3 'Serenity' after Node 1 was named 'Unity' and Node 2 was named 'Harmony' doesn't seem that odd.
Re:NASA won (Score:2, Informative)
Good, while their messing with tourists we can do real research. Here's the list of experiments done on each expedition.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/Expedition.html [nasa.gov]
And no, just because these don't mean anything to you does not mean they mean nothing to anyone else.
Re:Honorable Way Out for NASA (Score:5, Informative)
Re:My write in (Score:1, Informative)
It's a silly thing related to tons of urban myths where if you say a name, that person/force/thing will kidnap you. So, the joke is that "Candlejack" works on the internet, too, to steal awa
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:3, Informative)
10 years have passed, and Scientology is still an evil, ruthless, desperate, ineffective, incompetent. laughing stock of a cult.
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:5, Informative)
As someone else pointed out in a previous thread on this subject, serious organizations, especially ones with government connections, don't like to name things after people who are still alive.
You see, if you name it after a person who has lived out their life, you can evaluate their entire life and make sure that they haven't done anything that you wouldn't want to be associated with. However, someone who is still alive might very well do something in the future (kill someone in a drunk driving accident, get caught with child pornography, shoot their wife, etc) that no one wants to be associated with.
Of course, not everybody follows that advice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens_Anchorage_International_Airport [wikipedia.org]
Re:Coal bear, except for the WGA strike (Score:3, Informative)
He also often pronounces the T when talking to himself, like "get a grip, Colbert"
Re:NASA won (Score:1, Informative)
Tang.
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:So Colbert Nation greater than the Browncoats (Score:3, Informative)
Funny and insightful are not mutually exclusive. Clearly those mods were awarded by someone who found resonance with the truth illucidated therein. Even if they don't outright want to mess around, certainly it now strikes them as incredibly naive that someone would think a married father unlikely to see a whore or cheat.
Re:Colbert trumps Scientology; everyone wins. (Score:3, Informative)
Colbert is a common surname and rare given name of Old French and Old German origins; it was introduced to Britain by the Normans.[1]
Colbert most commonly refers to:
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French minister of finance under King Louis XIV...
And that's the US version.
Re:So Colbert Nation greater than the Browncoats (Score:2, Informative)
Re:My write in (Score:3, Informative)
I had to look up that attempt at a meme... I should have guessed it is from 4chan/b/ since it isn't funny, and has no intellectual appeal for anyone above perhaps fourteen.
I miss the days when /. had its own lame memes, and didn't have to import them from a bunch of adolescents. At least then the memes were fitting of the medium, meaning somewhat dorky.
Sorry for the nasty post, I just don't get the humor.
Re:My write in (Score:3, Informative)
I am tired of this God Damned Shit.
4chan did not create the Candlejack meme. It existed long before 4chan did. Years before I ever saw a 'funny picture' of Candlejack on the internet, my friends and I made the Candlejack joke all the damn time.
See, once upon a time, there was a show called Freakazoid!. It was funny as hell, but its target audience (children) didn't quite understand the humour.
However, some of us still have fond memories of the show, as it's one of those rare gems that gets funnier as you get older -- because you can appreciate more of the humour.
For the love of $DEITY, quick giving 4chan credit it doesn't deserve.