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Boaty McBoatface has gathered unprecedented data

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Boaty's maiden voyage was into the depths of Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean some 500 miles (800 km) from the Antarctic Peninsula.

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato, from the University of Southampton, said: 'The Orkney Passage is a key chokepoint to the flow of abyssal waters in which we expect the mechanism linking changing winds to abyssal water warming to operate.

'Our goal is to learn enough about these convoluted processes to represent them in the models that scientists use to predict how our climate will evolve over the 21st century and beyond.

'We have been able to collect massive amounts of data that we have never been able to capture before due to the way Boaty is able to move underwater.

'Up until now we have only been able to take measurements from a fixed point, but now, we are able to obtain a much more detailed picture of what is happening in this very important underwater landscape.'







http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40425996
 

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Wait, the important thing is the research ship name. :laugh:

I thought that despite the vote for that name, they eventually said "no, we can't actually name it that," and gave it a more dignified name?
 

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Its the Submersible that eventualy was named boaty Mcboatface


The research Vessel was eventually called RRS Sir David Attenborough
 
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Why not McDuck, Scrooge sounds probably awful as a first name, while McBoatface is a dreadful last name?
 

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It was a Internet Rickrolling thing that started out as a joke then steamrollered into being the most popular name Choice.
The naming Committee also thought it funny but was an inappropriate name for a Research Vessel
so they chose to call the Ship RRS Sir David Attenborough ( in Honour of the noted broadcaster Sir David Attenborough )

They had no objection to allowing the Submersible to be Called Boaty Mcboatface ( in appreciation of the public Intrest and collaboration in the ship naming ).
 
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I really hate the ___ Mc___Face baby talk, just sickening. Its as bad as ___ Mc____Pants.
 
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