Monday, March 23, 2009

To Infinity....and beyond!

Wasting time before the game, I came across this tidbit from NASA. The new room on the International Space Station will be named Colbert, after thousands of his fans flooded the NASA poll to win the online naming contest.
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.

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