NASA names Node 3, 'Serenity'
POSTED BY: Haken
UPDATED: Monday, April 13, 2009 20:26
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Originally posted by leedavidt:
haken p'wned me big time !
however, "Serenity" sure does have a
nice ring to it :)
Salesman: Yup. Real beauty, ain't she? Yes sir.
[The rocket-shaped vessel that the salesman is trying to sell Mal comes into view.]
Salesman: Tell you what. You buy this ship - treat her proper - she'll be with you for the rest of your life.
[But Mal has his attention caught by something else.]
Salesman: Son? Hey, son?
[As we follow Mal's point of view, we see a battered old Firefly, someday to become "Serenity," sitting on the other side of the lot.]
Salesman: You hear a word I been sayin'?
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There's still a chance they'll go with the right one.
Love that bit of OOG. That's why we used it as the opener for S5 of The Signal :-)
Sums it all up.
Nick
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Nice one, Haken! :) I actually thought this was an April Fool's press release put out by NASA itself! I guess I should have known better; they could never be this funny (they are too conservative and worried about getting into political trouble)
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this is shiney news, i had hoped nasa would name the node serenity because it fits the space theme better than colbert.
stay shiney all.
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Aw, I wanted to believe this! I know they named a ship Enterprise, so I thought just maybe..
oh well!
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ok so you got me haken, evil april folls joke. just wish nasa had the balls to override the vote count for real. by the way i liked the person who posted the photo with the patch on the node nice work.
stay shiney all.
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http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/
'...NASA plans to announce the name selected for the newest module for the International Space Station on April 14 - with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams - on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." The program will air at 11:30 pm EDT.
NASA originally planned to announce the node's name on April 28, after it arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, the node's arrival at Kennedy is delayed until May, so the announcement was moved ahead to April 14.
The name, which will not be publicly released until the program airs, was selected from thousands of unique suggestions submitted on NASA's web site. The "Help Name Node 3" poll asked people to vote for the module's name, either by choosing one of four NASA options or by offering their own suggestion. The poll closed on March 20.
"The node naming poll was organic and took on a life of its own," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We received more than a million entries, in large part because social media Web sites and television programs, such as 'The Colbert Report,' took an interest. This spread overall awareness of the International Space Station."
The show's producers offered to host the name selection announcement after comedian and host Stephen Colbert took interest during the census and urged his followers to post the name "Colbert." "I certainly hope NASA does the right thing," said Colbert. "Just kidding, I hope they name it after me."
A staggering 1,190,437 people voted or suggested names for the module. Of the names submitted by the public, "Colbert" got the most votes. NASA's suggested names, in order of popularity, were "Serenity," "Legacy," "Earthrise," and "Venture." Of the four, "Serenity" was the overwhelming favorite, receiving 70 percent of the votes.'
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=92647ba7-a0b2-474d-9
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Originally posted by WhosThatGirl:
Check your sources people.
If it ain't up on the NASA Web site, it must be April 1.
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