{"id":18961,"date":"2016-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/online-poll-to-name-important-boat-has-massively-backfired\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T00:00:00","slug":"online-poll-to-name-important-boat-has-massively-backfired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/online-poll-to-name-important-boat-has-massively-backfired\/","title":{"rendered":"An online poll to name an important boat has massively backfired"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An online poll to name a $380 million research ship in the UK appears to have backfired, with the majority of respondents voting to name the ship Boaty McBoatface.<\/h3>\n<p>Britain\u2019s National Environment Research Council (NERC) decided to let the public name the engineering vessel, and safe to say hardly anyone took it seriously.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, the leading contender \u2013 by more than 13,000 votes \u2013 was RRS Boaty McBoatface.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders making the top 15 included Boaty McBoatface the return, Boat, It&#8217;s bloody cold here, Usain Bolt and Ice Ice Baby.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is 128 metres long and is due to be in operation in the Arctic and Antarctic from 2019, will carry up to 90 scientists and support staff.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, The Telegraph was reporting the top 15 name suggestions:<\/p>\n<p>1. RRS Boaty McBoatface<br><br \/>\n\t2. RRS Henry Worsley<br><br \/>\n\t3. RRS Pillar of Autumn<br><br \/>\n\t4. RRS David Attenborough<br><br \/>\n\t5. RRS Boaty McBoatface the return<br><br \/>\n\t6. RRS Boat<br><br \/>\n\t7. RRS Pingu<br><br \/>\n\t8. RRS It&#8217;s bloody cold here<br><br \/>\n\t9. RRS Usain Bolt<br><br \/>\n\t10. RRS Tiffany Aching<br><br \/>\n\t11. RRS Red Dwarf<br><br \/>\n\t12. RRS Tom Crean<br><br \/>\n\t13. RRS Ice Ice Baby<br><br \/>\n\t14. RRS Notthetitanic<br><br \/>\n\t15. RRS Ada Lovelace<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/mar\/20\/eccentric-choices-surface-in-quest-to-name-polar-research-vessel?CMP=twt_gu#img-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to The Guardian<\/a>, the NERC isn\u2019t bound by the result of the online poll, as it was merely an opportunity for the public to \u201csuggest\u201d names.<\/p>\n<p>A final decision on the name will be made later this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/the-amazing-benefits-of-drinking-beer\">THE AMAZING BENEFITS OF DRINKING BEER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/win\/fiveaa-footy-tipping\">YOU COULD WIN $5000 IN THE FIVEAA FOOTY TIPPING COMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online poll to name a $380 million research ship in the UK appears to have backfired, with the majority of respondents voting to name the ship Boaty McBoatface. Britain\u2019s National Environment Research Council (NERC) decided to let the public name the engineering vessel, and safe to say hardly anyone took it seriously. On Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-18961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An online poll to name an important boat has massively backfired - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/online-poll-to-name-important-boat-has-massively-backfired\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An online poll to name an important boat has massively backfired\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An online poll to name a $380 million research ship in the UK appears to have backfired, with the majority of respondents voting to name the ship Boaty McBoatface. 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