NASA names Node 'Tranquility' by Cain

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NASA names Node 'Tranquility'

POSTED BY: CAIN
UPDATED: Thursday, April 16, 2009 15:51
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:58 PM

I thought "Serenity" got the second most votes ???

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WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After more than a million online responses, the node will be called "Tranquility."

The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on NASA's Web site, www.nasa.gov. The "Help Name Node 3" poll asked people to vote for the module's name either by choosing one of four options listed by NASA or offering their own suggestion. Tranquility was one of the top ten suggestions submitted by respondents to the poll, which ended March 20.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:06 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

We got hosed. Colbert stuffed the ballot box on t.v., to stoke his own ego, and got a tread mill named after him.

What did we get ?

What we seem to get most often.....

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:07 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Tranquility - Serenity...........Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
Mighty suspichoso!

Still though, it was good to be in the hunt.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:49 AM

SCHISM

They didn't want to name it after him.
However they didn't want to seem 'uncool' and tell him no.
So they made sure that NEITHER side won.

Talk about sycophantism at its best.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:44 AM

PEULSAR5

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

So, why have the contest at all?

At least they can watch Firefly and Serenity while walking on his stupid treadmill.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:59 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Quote:
Originally posted by Peulsar5:
So, why have the contest at all?

Yeah, my question exactly. They ignore the top SEVEN choices and go with the 8th one? I call Shenanigans!

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:05 AM

2BY2GINGERBLUE

I wonder how many Billions NASA spent on this whole back and forth.Just to have the outcome probably be what they wanted!!!
I will still call it SERENITY no matter what they paint on it!!!

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:51 AM

GILOVE2DANCE

Quote:
I will still call it SERENITY no matter what they paint on it!!!

Hear hear!!! GRRRRRR I bet Serenity had thousands of more votes than Tranquility....and Serenity fits in better with Harmony and Unity. What a load of go se.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:54 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

He only rallied a vote to make some spiteful prank. Colbert is scum, he should stick to comedy

the dweeb has no interest in space exploration

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:22 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

And I was just about to send them my back-up port compression coil too!

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:58 AM

RIPWASH

I don't know about the rest of you, but I sent them a message on their website to plead our case. Perhaps if more people do so, we can get SOMETHING out of the deal.

Zoe: "Get it running again."
Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
- Out of Gas

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:28 AM

CELLARDOOR

It sounds like Serenity got around 190,000 votes. Tranquility (the second provided option, right?) got around 35,000 votes. Hmmm.... Oh well, I hope I hope I hope they name a manned spacecraft Serenity a few years down the road!

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:51 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Tranquility - Serenity...........Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
Mighty suspichoso!

Still though, it was good to be in the hunt.

SGG

Tawabawho?

Tranquility Bay... A bit before the BDS aired on F**.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:00 AM

MSA

I'm sure Serenity will be the name of something.. probably the next thing they do

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:18 AM

WASHNWEAR

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Quote:
Originally posted by Peulsar5:
So, why have the contest at all?

Yeah, my question exactly. They ignore the top SEVEN choices and go with the 8th one? I call Shenanigans!

I'm starting to suspect that the results of NASA's little "contest" were determined by the Electoral College...

W W R D ?
What would Rorschach do?

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:31 AM

CAIN

I think I read that they hired the folks who counted ballots in the 2000 presidential campaign in Florida - to count these votes for NASA.

:)

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:07 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

Quote:
Originally posted by Cain:
I think I read that they hired the folks who counted ballots in the 2000 presidential campaign in Florida - to count these votes for NASA.

I heard it was a small group of surviving astro-chimps , who couldn't get hired as F*>< network execs because they're 'overqualified'...

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:17 AM

VIOLYNS

Those zany NASA people...You never know what they'll do!! Keeping us on our toes.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:24 AM

TEXARCANA

I'm putting this one down in the "Fail Column".
Time to notify NASA of displeasure.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:47 AM

ZEEK

They got exactly what they wanted. They got some publicity for little cost. Really would it do anything to have it named Serenity? Most of us would put a little ticky mark on some chalk board in our minds and then move on never to think about it again. I agree it's lame that they ditched Serenity to be PC but whatever it's not really important in any way.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:49 AM

WHOZIT

Sorry, I did'nt see your post, I'm a little P.O.'d

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:58 PM

SCHLACKO

Some of these posts that are supposed to be funny, are pretty retarded. If you looked at the results, and weren't an idiot, you would see they didn't have a problem with counting votes, they just didn't care about the results and called it what they wanted to, which is what the 'contest rules' said would happen.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:06 PM

FREELANCERTEX

lllllooooooolllz take that Colbert XD i kinda figured they'd go with a name different from the top two just to keep the peace. but i'm *so* glad they didnt name it Colbert. Their reasoning behind Tranquility makes sense though.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:58 PM

JIGSY

Reading this thread makes it seem as though Firefly fans and Colbert fans are mutually exclusive.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 8:51 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by jigsy:
Reading this thread makes it seem as though Firefly fans and Colbert fans are mutually exclusive.

Are you suggesting that FF fans are too smart to lower themselves to the level of Colbert, and Colbert zanies are not smart enough to get Firefly?

Can't say I disagree.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:49 AM

TEXARCANA

Quote:
Originally posted by Schlacko:
Some of these posts that are supposed to be funny, are pretty retarded. If you looked at the results, and weren't an idiot, you would see they didn't have a problem with counting votes, they just didn't care about the results and called it what they wanted to, which is what the 'contest rules' said would happen.

And this is supposed to be an example of how NOT to be "retarded"?
Nice job on the double standard my son.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:31 PM

DREAMTROVE

It's pretty obvious what happened. Colbert being an asshole didn't happen, that was already a part of the known world order. Some Firefly fan dicked us by ticking off NASA. Serenity was the clear winner, and was one of the prefered options because someone at NASA was a browncoat, but then some rabid fan did something so looney and obnoxious that they canned the idea. That's my call. They were clearly predisposed in our favor, and someone on our side probably screwed it up.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:51 PM

FREELANCERTEX

once again, they were 'suggestions' not 'nominations'. NASA said they'd consider the top votes, but they still have the right to choose. it is *their* ISS after all. they never said the winner of the contest would be the end all be all.

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