{"id":180147,"date":"2017-07-08T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/08\/boaty-mcboatface-lives\/"},"modified":"2017-07-08T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T12:42:00","slug":"boaty-mcboatface-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/08\/boaty-mcboatface-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Boaty McBoatface Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I still think that that the whole boat should have been so named, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jun\/28\/boaty-mcboatface-submarine-maiden-voyage\">I am still heartened by the maiden voyage of the remotely operated submersible<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A yellow submarine dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/mar\/13\/boaty-mcboatface-to-go-on-first-antarctic-mission\">Boaty McBoatface<\/a> has obtained \u201cunprecedented data\u201d from its first voyage exploring one of the deepest and coldest ocean regions on Earth, scientists have said. <\/p>\n<p>The robotic submersible was given the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/apr\/17\/boaty-mcboatface-wins-poll-to-name-polar-research-vessel\">originally chosen for a new polar research ship<\/a> by irreverent contestants in a public competition. Embarrassed officials decided to ignore the popular vote and instead named the vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough in honour of the veteran broadcaster. A storm of protest led to a compromise that allowed the name to live on. <\/p>\n<p>The submarine plunged to depths as far as 4,000 metres to obtain information about temperature, water flow speed and turbulence from Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean about 500 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Huzza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still think that that the whole boat should have been so named, but I am still heartened by the maiden voyage of the remotely operated submersible: A yellow submarine dubbed Boaty McBoatface has obtained \u201cunprecedented data\u201d from its first voyage exploring one of the deepest and coldest ocean regions on Earth, scientists have said. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[400,367,445,679,427,421],"class_list":["post-180147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-funny","tag-internet","tag-naval","tag-research","tag-science","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}