Name a room in the Space Station after him! He is leading the vote by telling fans to write his name in as their choice (just his last name) LINK to story LINK to voting
I voted for Colbert. I'm looking forward to watching the Colbert launch while eating my Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream ice cream.
I assume the whole point of this exercise was to raise awareness of the space program. Hard to imagine how they could've been more successful without Colbert's effort. If NASA is smart, they'll compromise. Name the section whatever they want, and the recycling toilet Colbert. It would be The Colbert Memorial Toilet (silent second "t"). Hard to imagine the Colbert Nation being dissatisfied with that.
A basic sense of dignity and respect for the space program. I would think the people behind the program feel too much responsibility to all the employees and the millions in tax dollars to allow it to become a joke/marketing tool for Colbert. I'm a huge fan of Colbert, and it's a great prank. But the space program isn't a minor league hockey team or an obscure spider (other things he's had his name plastered on to very humorous affect). It's a serious business that people have paid a lot of money for and died for. It shouldn't be trivialized in this way. They should throw him a comic bone (aka the toilet) and leave it at that.
On their site they reserved the right to use another name they deemed appropriate with consideration to the voting results, but I don't think naming a room after him is so undignified.
I heard on NPR this morning that they gave a treadmill in the ISS the acronym C.O.L.B.E.R.T. Of course, I was half asleep, so I could have been dreaming.
I wasn't too far off in my guess. They named their treadmill after him (I guess my toilet idea was too low brow). They threw him a token that allows the space program to retain its dignity while still recognizing a good publicity stunt when it smacks them in the face.
