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Boaty McBoatface Has Successfully Returned From its Travels

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 02 2017, @02:01AM   Printer-friendly

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Cmn32480_phone

Yes, Boaty McBoatface has returned from its first journey, sent deep into the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, where it experienced some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on Earth.

It was sent on an expedition funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), who ran the now famous vote that propelled Boaty to stardom. During three excursions, researchers used Boaty to get data on temperature, speed of water, and underwater turbulence rates of the Orkney Passage. This is about 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) deep, and 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the Antarctic Peninsula.

[...] This was Boaty's first Antarctic voyage, traveling more than 180 kilometers (110 miles) by its own, and experiencing water colder than 0°C (32°F). It's thought that changing winds over the Southern Ocean may be affecting seafloor currents that carry AABW, which is what Boaty was investigating. As the flow gets faster, it could affect global climate change.

Source; also at the BBC

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @04:47AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @04:47AM (#534087)

    Of the two articles cited, the BBC is far better. People who find the freezing point of water to be remarkable either live in tropic zones, or live sheltered lives.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @10:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 02 2017, @10:06AM (#534138)

    woosh.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Sunday July 02 2017, @06:06PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday July 02 2017, @06:06PM (#534196) Journal

    Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden on 27 November 1701. His family originated from Ovanåker in the province of Hälsingland. Their family estate was at Doma, [...] The name Celsius is a latinization of the estate's name (Latin celsus "mound"). [...] Anders Celsius studied at Uppsala University, where his father was a teacher, and in 1730 he too, became a professor of astronomy there.

    -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Celsius [wikipedia.org]

    He didn't live during Sweden's tropical period, but that does sound like a sheltered life.