Nix | April 15, 2009
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NASA Denies Colbert Space Station Name

Sorry, Colbert fans, your precious Stephen Colbert won’t be getting a space station named after him despite 230,539 write-in votes, trumping the second place finisher, “Serenity” with a measly 40,000 votes. Instead, NASA has decided to go with the name “Tranquility” for the Node 3, its new living quarters on the International Space Station, which it publicly asked for naming suggestions in an attempt to drum up interest.

But NASA did make one concession to Colbert’s fans: they will rename a vital piece of equipment on the Node 3 after Colbert — the Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, aka the exercise treadmill.

All of this is fine and all, and space geeks probably get a kick out of it, but everyone else is probably wondering why we’re spending $100 billion on an International Space Station that doesn’t seem to be producing very much.

By the way. Colbert? Funny as heck on the Daily Show, but I don’t know how anyone can watch him for 30 minutes on his own show. Painful doesn’t begin to describe it.

Via Reuters.


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  • Illyria

    You are a nutter! The Colbert Report is very funny, even better than the Daily Show these days.

  • shels

    Are you an idiot? Have you even watched his show over the past 5 years? He is a comedic genius–a stronger extention of his character on The Daily Show. Even Jon Stewart has aknowledged his talent stating “Had we known how talented he was, we wouldn’t have let him go.”

  • http://www.scificool.com Nix

    Geez, I certainly hope not all of Colbert’s fans are represented by you two. Let’s see, so if I don’t agree with you, then I must be an “idiot” and a “nutter”? That’s one way to win an argument, I guess, go right for the personal name-calling. Then again, I should probably just be glad one of you children didn’t go the “your just jealous!” route.

  • kingslattery

    you are an idiot and a nutter

  • http://www.scificool.com Nix

    Don’t forget, I’m just jealous, too!

  • Sam

    I couldn’t figure out what was the point of the contest. At least, they should have named it Serenity. But i do disagree and think that Colbert is pretty good. I think his show does go from total idiocy to total brilliance. You might have watched his low point.