Wednesday
Mar252009
Truthiness Update: Stephen Colbert Moving to Outer Space
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 8:49 
From today's New York Times:NASA’s online contest to name a new room at the International Space Station went awry. The 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. NASA’s mistake was allowing write-ins. Mr. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That beat 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, and an agency spokesman said NASA would decide in April.
The four sections of the Space Station will now be named Unity, Harmony, Destiny, and Colbert. News which clearly deserves a Tip of the Hat.
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