Tea party activists and the GOP should take a look at the Colbert Nation for tips on how to organize supporters. From bridges in Hungary, to ice cream flavors and a presidential bid in South Carolina, the Colbert Nation always come through for their champion.
NASA apparently did not fully understand this phenomenon when they allowed a public vote to decide what to name a node on the International Space Station. Guess who came out on top?
But it was not to be, and NASA showed early signs of squeamishness when the results were tallied. They announced yesterday that the appropriate name will be "Tranquility", but they did make one concession.
From UPI:
NASA announced the name Tuesday night during Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." The cable show's producers offered to host the announcement after comedian Stephen Colbert urged his viewers to suggest the name "Colbert," which subsequently received the most entries.
"We don't typically name U.S. space station hardware after living people and this is no exception," Gerstenmaier said. "However, NASA is naming its new space station treadmill the 'Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,' or COLBERT. We have invited Stephen to Florida for the launch of COLBERT and to Houston to try out a version of the treadmill that astronauts train on."
The treadmill is to be launched in August and will be installed in the Tranquility module. A newly created patch will depict the acronym and an illustration of the treadmill.
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