Re: James Clark Ross?
Exactly - the David Attenborough will only be completed in 2019 according to various news sites..
Boaty McBoatface has slipped beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic on her first operational deployment. Happily, the little yellow submarine resurfaced again after 30 hours following a pre-programmed route devised by scientists from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre. Lowered into the Weddell …
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..has just triggered a memory from when I was a kid. Some might say four decades ago although my wife would say yesterday.
Where has all the white dog poo gone? Is there a special "wdp" dog that no-one buys these days or was there something special which happened back then to make standard dog poo (sdp) into "wdp".
In the olden days, dog poo was left to decompose, and thus enrich the land. Some dog food contained high levels of calcium and phosphates. when the poo decomposed, the white crust was left. (Also some urea may be present due to dogs peeing at the same time).
These days all dog poo is removed before it gets chance to cool, because, elfin saferty
SECOND favourite ? That acid-fuelled yellow bastard ridden by a bunch of hippies as most definitely been usurped!
And don't get me wrong, the amount of time I spent watching that thing while acid soaked myself means it holds a special place in my heart. But anything even slightly associated with David Attenborough comes in at #1
The man is a bloody demi god in my eyes.
Clickbait headline? You betcha. Now, where's my beer...
The beer.... well that's been purified by straining it through my kidneys before serving it to your good self. :-))))
an ill-advised public vote to name the new ship
Err, not ill advised at all. The object of the exercise was to raise public awareness of the organisation an public awareness raised it was. Noting ill-advised about that.
Boaty McBoatface is sunk, all raise Boaty McBoatface.
But they got distracted by deep-sea vents around Antarctica ...
"[Captain Sir James Clark Ross RN] later mounted an unsuccessful search for HM Ships Erebus and Terror, which were both lost without trace searching for the elusive North West Passage around the top of the Americas. Terror was found some 168 years after disappearing, having sunk in an Arctic bay after being abandoned by her doomed crew. "
Nothing factually wrong with what you've written; the wreck of HMS Terror was indeed discovered in Sept 2016. However, you failed to mention that the remains of HMS Erebus were also found -- somewhat earlier, actually, in Sept 2014 -- leaving one with the impression that the latter is still missing.