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riversedge

(69,706 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 10:45 PM Jun 2019

Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission




Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission

By Rob Picheta, CNN

Updated 3:04 PM ET, Tue June 18, 2019

Current Time 0:25
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Duration Time 1:38



(CNN)The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds and rising sea temperatures on its maiden outing.

The unmanned submarine, whose moniker won a landslide victory in a public poll to name a $300 million British polar research ship, undertook its inaugural mission in April 2017.

The task saw McBoatface travel 180 kilometers (112 miles) through mountainous underwater valleys in Antarctica, measuring the temperature, saltiness and turbulence in the depths of the Southern Ocean.

Its findings, published in the journal PNAS on Monday, revealed how increasingly strong winds in the region are causing turbulence deep within the sea, and as a result mixing warm water from middle levels with colder water in the abyss.


That process is causing the sea temperature to rise, which in turn is a significant contributor to rising sea levels, scientists behind the project said. ........................




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Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2019 OP
That's hilarious underpants Jun 2019 #1
Didn't think a climate change story would ever make me smile 😆 Takket Jun 2019 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #3
Boaty McBoatface is the little yellow submersible canetoad Jun 2019 #4
Totally ... they shoulda gone with 'Global Death Sub' ... gotta keep everything super-serious (nt) mr_lebowski Jun 2019 #6
Wonderful! I love the British sense of humour Glorfindel Jun 2019 #5

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canetoad

(17,088 posts)
4. Boaty McBoatface is the little yellow submersible
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:22 PM
Jun 2019

Hanging from the davit. The ship is the Sir David Attenborough.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Totally ... they shoulda gone with 'Global Death Sub' ... gotta keep everything super-serious (nt)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:40 PM
Jun 2019

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
5. Wonderful! I love the British sense of humour
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:29 PM
Jun 2019

Can you imagine the United States having a whimsical name for a research vessel, however small?
(Trumpy McTrumpass would be rather cool, though, wouldn't it?

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