http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090324/sc_space/nasamightnametoiletforcomedianstephencolbert
This disappoints me in so many ways...
This disappoints me in so many ways...
Colbert for Toilet or ISS wing? (Yuk)
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udaman
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I don't really care what they name it. What's remarkable is the $250M urine to water processing system, 2nd one being installed on the current Shuttle mission. The one they took up last year is malfunctioning. Sheesh, that's more than AIG bonuses.
2nd time going up on a Russian space capsule, wealthy US citizen paying a cool $30M for the ride.
Shuttle program is due to retire in 2010 just a year away, what happens now, nothing to replace it, is the end of an era?
2nd time going up on a Russian space capsule, wealthy US citizen paying a cool $30M for the ride.
Shuttle program is due to retire in 2010 just a year away, what happens now, nothing to replace it, is the end of an era?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I bet that they will extend the shuttle program a couple more years.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
I wonder exactly how it malfunctioned? I hope not in the way I'm thinking. :erm:
In order to reduce the deficit NASA's budget will be cut considerably. Last I heard this is what they will be using:
Stereodude
Not really a
What part, that Colbert manipulated the voting to win, or that NASA might get even with him and name the toilet after him?
ddrueding
Fixture
Campaigning is not manipulating. If that is all we had to worry about in elections, I would feel much better.
Lets see,
That there were so few cared enough to vote.
That Colbert even tried.
That Colbert succeeded.
That NASA wants to get even.
That NASA Isn't willing to accept the election,
that NASA feels the appropiate thing is to imortalize Colbert by naming a toilet after him.
That a toilet is good enough.
That any of this actually matters...
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Don't blame me, I voted "Serenity" in that election.
Stereodude
Not really a
I wasn't aware of that election, but I wouldn't have voted for Colbert.
Ditto.
jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
Honestly, I didn't even know who Colbert was until yesterday. Shows how little I care about pop culture.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
On the other hand, acknowledging that reality DOES have a liberal bias is somewhat appealing in its own way...
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Everyone's a ham.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Seriously, you guys thought that this went with "Unity" and "Harmony?"
Then again, the Europeans thought that "Columbus" somehow worked with "Hope" and "Destiny."
I voted for "Synergy."
A lot better than Colbert. I voted Serenity, based on FireFly.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Depends what you ate before. Sometimes, a more deserved name would be "firestorm" or "hurricane". How's digestion in low gravity?
Why did that guy wanted his name on the toilet? Does he like to be shitted on?
Colbert didn't want a toilet named after him: That was NASA's reaction after he won, as a write-in, the naming contest for the new upcoming wing of the ISS.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
PS: The new node is to be named "Tranquility."
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html
Colbert gets a treadmill.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html
Colbert gets a treadmill.