myYearbook Challenges Stephen Colbert for Interstellar Domination!

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Who will NASA let fly?

(NEW HOPE, Pa) March 11, 2009.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- myYearbook is challenging TV talk-show host Stephen Colbert for galactic supremacy. myYearbook -- a social network started by two teens -- recently encouraged its 11 million members to visit NASA’s web site to name Node 3 of the International Space Station “myYearbook,” and not “Colbert.” NASA is running an online contest until March 20 to help name the space station’s newest module.

“We really think we have a shot to beat Colbert,” says Catherine Cook, myYearbook’s 19-year-old co-founder. “We get at least 40,000 votes per day. In just a few days, we went from zero votes to being the #2 vote-getter, right behind Colbert and right in front of Xenu, the galactic overlord of Scientology. We have more than a week to go, and we are catching up fast. If he wants me to give up, there is a way to settle this – an arm wrestle on his show.”

“It’s an underdog story,” says Catherine, “and we’re Rudy. Last time I checked, Rudy doesn’t get crushed by a Scientologist -- or by Stephen Colbert.”

In two consecutive episodes of The Colbert Report last week, Colbert urged his viewers to write in his name “Colbert” on NASA’s web site to name the new space module after him. Hundreds of thousands of viewers responded within 24 hours.

By the next show, “Colbert” had displaced “Xenu” at the top of NASA’s list, leading Colbert to declare himself Scientology’s new leader. “Now since I am officially ahead of Xenu in the vote, I believe that now makes me Scientology’s new galactic overlord. You can rest assured that as the new galactic overlord, I’m going to be tough, but fair, but tough,” Colbert said on his show.

Catherine doesn’t seem fazed by the larger-than-life television personality. “I think we will win, and more than that, I think I’ll beat him in an arm wrestle,” she says. “We have 11 million people finding matches, flirting, and messaging on myYearbook. myYearbook is an incredibly active site, and our members seem to really want this. But if we don’t end up winning, I just hope Colbert does beat Xenu. Xenu isn’t the Scientologist I’d want to send into space.”