Name new space station module 'Serenity' by phlcn

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Name new space station module 'Serenity'

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UPDATED: Friday, March 20, 2009 18:02
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:45 PM

Just a bump so folks know where to vote.

David

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 4:35 PM

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:59 PM

Well, I'd love a mention. Any publicity is good publicity

-Erik

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 6:07 PM

I...guess so. Is Xenu's publicity over at the Colbert Nation board good publicity? I... guess maybe.

But yeah, for Firefly, I'll take what I can get.

OK, time to watch Daily Show, Colbert, and then Nathan Fillion on Jimmy Kimmel!

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 8:41 PM

We can go vote for Serenity again!

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 8:59 PM

Yep. Don't give up the fight, people. I honestly don't think we have much of a chance, but :insert random inspirational Firefly quote: Don't give up, at least we can say we tried.

-Erik

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 10:28 PM

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

Either NASA is not updating the %, or Serenity still has 86%.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:35 PM

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 4:21 AM

This also got a mention on Fark.com today. It seems the posting public is pretty split between Colbert, Xenu, and Serenity -- however, they also posted that clearing your cookies allows multiple voting, so it's hard to tell what those nuts will end up trying to do with it.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 5:31 AM

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 8:26 AM

169557 users have voted or submitted a name so far

And Serenity still at 86 percent.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:50 AM

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:57 AM

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 10:04 AM

Everyone! Vote multiple times with Internet Explorer and clear your cookies to vote multiple times with firefly. I'm doing my part voting at least 20+ times a day. Colbert will not defeat us. Hold the gorram line!

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 12:44 PM

Voted wohoo were way in the lead.

Shinny :)

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 1:25 PM

The voting has been going on for quite awhile, and in just under two days (since The Colbert Report aired the NASA segment), the votes have almost doubled. Let's face it, probably 90% of the votes in those 2 days were for Colbert. It shows that we are at 86%, but that's only for the four names NASA has suggested. I would imagine (through looking at the increase of votes in the past few days), we are already a little behind Colbert. By this time tomorrow, we will be well behind Colbert. Let's just hope NASA likes the sound of Serenity better than Colbert.

-Erik

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:33 PM

I've been voting quite often these last two days and always for Serenity.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:39 PM

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Let's just hope NASA likes the sound of Serenity better than Colbert.

There is basically zero chance that Colbert will be selected as the actual name of the node. If for no other reason than that it would make NASA look silly. Really silly.

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 7:10 PM

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Friday, March 6, 2009 12:40 AM

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Friday, March 6, 2009 3:34 AM

vump...? Ok, I'll go with it! :) Several computers will be voting from me today.

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Friday, March 6, 2009 11:19 AM

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Sunday, March 8, 2009 5:30 PM

Hm, down to 81% today, but I'll keep voting anyhow. Still another couple weeks or so!

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Sunday, March 8, 2009 8:49 PM

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Sunday, March 8, 2009 9:38 PM

81% vump and still losing ground.

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Monday, March 9, 2009 2:32 AM

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Monday, March 9, 2009 4:12 AM

I am NOT convinced that Serenity is leading the poll, despite the 80%+ share (for now) amoungst the four button names (non write-ins). It would not surprise me if all of the top ten write-ins have more votes than Serenity, maybe even Enterprise and some others that have fallen off the top ten list as some of the silly names gain momentum.

As has been posted in this thread, the number of votes has gone up very rapidly, but Serenity has only lost ground and some of the top ten alternate names have been changing or moving often. That tells me that many of the write-ins have many more votes than Serenity. The fact that Serenity has been falling against the other three vote button names makes me think us Browncoats are being overconfident and/or lazy.

Fortunely NASA does not intend to just accept the name with the highest votes, merely consider the winning suggestions. And many of the top ten alternates are just plain stupid and are very unlikely to be selected by NASA.

Lastly, I believe that vote fraud is a bad idea. If you delete your cookie to revote, you likely still have the same IP. At the end when they review the results, I would hope that they plan to do their fraud check and eliminate the fraudulent votes - perhaps like mulitple votes on the same day from the same IP - not sure how votes from a big company would look to them. Likely that would mean that they would eliminate all the votes from the same IP on the same day. It would really stink of so many Serenity votes (including originally valid ones) got tossed that we fell behind any or all of the three other vote button names.

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Monday, March 9, 2009 6:54 AM

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Monday, March 9, 2009 11:56 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:19 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:42 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:07 AM

It's down to 79%!!! We need more votes!!!!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:49 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:45 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:17 AM

Would love to know how the "Suggested" votes count in all this.

452591 users have voted or submitted a name so far

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:24 AM

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Would love to know how the "Suggested" votes count in all this.

452591 users have voted or submitted a name so far

Thought I already posted this, colbert has about 200,000, but it's the same people voting over and over again, serenity has about 100,000 now, and xenu about 50,000, and no one else has squat.

They'll pick serenity anyway.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:24 AM

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Voted! :)

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:12 AM

vump because we're at 79% now

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:16 AM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:36 PM

Another vote but down to 78%

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:13 PM

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Would love to know how the "Suggested" votes count in all this.

452591 users have voted or submitted a name so far

Thought I already posted this, colbert has about 200,000, but it's the same people voting over and over again, serenity has about 100,000 now, and xenu about 50,000, and no one else has squat.

They'll pick serenity anyway.

The numbers I read today on the Comcast news site were 115,000 for Colbert and 98,000 for Serenity.
Serenity is more appropriately linked to the other node names, and there is a real (fictional) space link in that Serenity is the Firefly Mal Reynolds will captain in a far flung future.

Colbert is a parody and a joke as a show, a character and as a person. Not to over-dignify the ISS or our orbital space program, but Serenity is a more appropriate name for the node. Actually, the "piss-recycler" is more accurate and at least equally undignified as "Colbert". Maybe NASA could go with the "Colbert Urination Regeneration Station".....

Or just pick "Serenity"!

Mike

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:11 PM

hahaha "Colbert Urination Regeneration Station" or Curs for short.

I'm sure they're going to call it Serenity. They'll probably do it like the bridge that Colbert wanted, and find a technicality to avoid giving it to him in a fun way.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:24 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:

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Would love to know how the "Suggested" votes count in all this.

452591 users have voted or submitted a name so far

Thought I already posted this, colbert has about 200,000, but it's the same people voting over and over again, serenity has about 100,000 now, and xenu about 50,000, and no one else has squat.

They'll pick serenity anyway.

The numbers I read today on the Comcast news site were 115,000 for Colbert and 98,000 for Serenity.
Serenity is more appropriately linked to the other node names, and there is a real (fictional) space link in that Serenity is the Firefly Mal Reynolds will captain in a far flung future.

Colbert is a parody and a joke as a show, a character and as a person. Not to over-dignify the ISS or our orbital space program, but Serenity is a more appropriate name for the node. Actually, the "piss-recycler" is more accurate and at least equally undignified as "Colbert". Maybe NASA could go with the "Colbert Urination Regeneration Station".....

Or just pick "Serenity"!

Mike

pennausamike

Thanks for the actual numbers. My twitter based estimates weren't that far off. They were based on the frequency with which people said "i just voted for _____" or words to that effect.

It shows a margin of error on my twittercast, but small enough to show that my twitter nielsen is probably solid enough. BSG>American Idol> [about ten shows people keep mentioning here INCLUDING FIREFLY] all of which are still even with a 40% MoE, solidly ahead of Nielsen's "second ranked" CSI.

For firefly, not bad for a show that's been off the air for many years. Means more people watched Firefly every week than watch basically anything in Nielsen's top ten except american idol.

Further proof that the MSM doesn't really care about money, it cares about message, they won't air something that conflicts. Sad that this has spread to Fox, who is still braver than most.

Off to watch Heroes, maybe Castle.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:11 PM

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:41 PM

America loves a winner!

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Quote:
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Let's just hope NASA likes the sound of Serenity better than Colbert.

There is basically zero chance that Colbert will be selected as the actual name of the node. If for no other reason than that it would make NASA look silly. Really silly.

David

Colbert just DISSED 'Serenity' as the top vote getter, and likened the name to an air freshener.

The man doesn't get it. We should send him a message!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:50 PM

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

We do need to write to colbert. He just said Serenity was a name for a glade plug-in not a spaceship. Anyone know if his show has an e-mail box we browncoats can flood?

As for the voting, the site isn't working for me right now, but I'll keep trying.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:17 PM

He seriously doesn't get it...? Man, what are the writers feeding him? He's losing more geek points each time he comes on the air. It's sad and pathetic, really.

I don't know about whether there's an email we could write to, though I guess we could follow Xenu's lead and spam the message boards... He might get the idea then. I'm 98% sure that's what got them the mention. The lone Serenity post way back when didn't exactly attract attention.

Edit: I posted on a few threads, mostly just to bump them. Rally the troops! Go to http://community.colbertnation.com/ and sign up for forum access there. Let's flood the Colbert Nation with Browncoat posts!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:10 PM

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

If these numbers are true--we aren't that far behind, and NASA's quotes are encouraging:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nasa_colbert;_ylt=AgEOm_WHbBu3mKN0xuan1UzZn
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:50 PM

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