In case you needed more grounds that the internet , left unfettered , is awful : Boaty McBoatface has nowwon the pollto name an coming gelid enquiry vessel .
Last month , the Natural Environment Research Council open up a crown , asking internet strangers what they should name their raw sauceboat . Rather than going with a shortlist of pick , they made it widely open — so predictably , the internet rebound behind Boaty McBoatface .
The option collected 124,109 votes , four more times than second - placed RRS Poppy - Mai . Honorable mention operate to RRS It ’s bloody cold here , which revolve in fourth , with 10,679 vote . Before you get too worked up , think back that the final appointment decision does rest with the NERC .
It ’s been a good year for the internet : first a bunch of ice hockey fan transport an hatchet man to theNHL All - Star game(and won him a car ) ; now a major scientific inquiry project is getting a dumb ( if continuously hilarious ) name suggestion .
What about the former BBC presenter who started the whole affair ? Well , he ’s doing an admirable Book of Job of not gloat .
Thanks to everyone who took#BoatyMcBoatfacein right spirit . Final say goes to@NERCscience , and there ’s wad of worthy winner .
— James Hand ( @JamesHand)April 17 , 2016
[ The Guardian ]
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