Penner wrote:Just a random question Mont, but whatever happened to your Boaty McBoatface?
The Antarctic survey ship was named the Sir David Attenborough but a remote sub on it was given the name Boaty Mc Boatface.
So they refused to give it the name the public wanted it to be named?
Yes they did go against the public vote. However I think this was a good thing, funny as it was for a bunch of kids to call for it to be named BoatyMcBoatface no one deserves the honour more than Sir David Attenborough. He is a national treasure and at 90 years old he is still working on some of the best wildlife programs ever made. I think in years to come when many of the animals he filmed are long extinct his programs will be an everlasting record of what we have lost.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.