Chalk up another win for the Colbert Nation. Maybe, or not. Whatever.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams will appear on tonight's Colbert Report to announce the winning name that will go on the International Space Station's module.

For those of you who aren't in the know and therefore aren't cool, here's the skinny. NASA held an online vote to field suggestions on names for a new module on the space station. Colbert rallied his legion of ballot stuffing zombies to nominate his name and the name "Colbert" eventually garnered the most votes.

Now my mind immediately tells me the obvious will happen. NASA will happily concede Colbert's victory and paste his name on the module. It has to be the answer. Why else would they announce it on his show, other than just to be cruel? After all, we are talking about astronauts. Has the Upright Citizens Brigade taught us nothing?


But then there's that part of my brain that loves to jump into situations with obvious outcomes and plant the idea that something completely oddball and strange will happen. We all have it. It usually shows up at high school proms, IRS audits and football games where a house deed is involved in a bet.

Stranger things have happened. Right?