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Posted on 10/26/2020 10:06:13 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Britain's most advanced polar research ship in decades was set to begin technical sea trials on Wednesday before making its maiden voyage to Antarctica next year.
The £200 million ($263 million, 222 million euro) 15,000 tonne vessel, which found global fame in 2016 when the public voted for it to be called "Boaty McBoatface", is expected to transform UK research in the polar regions.
"This magnificent ship will take UK scientists deep into the heart of the ice-covered polar seas," said Professor Dame Jane Francis, director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which will operate the boat.
More than 120,000 people voted for "Boaty McBoatface" in an online poll, but officials decided the ship would be named "Sir David Attenborough" in honour of the veteran naturalist and broadcaster.
As a nod to the public vote, officials agreed to call its yellow submarine "Boaty McBoatface".
From the country that spent five years treating the referendum vote for Brexit as interesting suggestion.
The hopes and dreams of 120,000 people, whose voices were silenced, living in a yellow submarine....
Their friends are all aboard.
Many more of them live next door.
Is this for researching Global Warming? How soon till it gets hopelessly entrapped in the ice while on a mission to prove the ice caps are melting?
Monty Python’s Flying Circus was apparently a documentary.
Isn’t Attenborough the guy who got humped by an amorous chunky green flightless nocturnal New Zealand Kakapo parrot whilst on camera?
Well, now I know what Boaty, son of Boatface, looks like.
And all this time, I thought it was named after Admiral Nelson’s flagship at Trafalgar.
Who is given odds in Vegas this stupidly named tug goes down on her maiden voyage?
Well, the world has now gone full retard.
Dignity is dead, and unmourned.
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