Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide

Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:53AM (#11335590)

Totally this.

And it would be brilliant for kids.

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by noir_lord on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:56AM (#11335600)

Indeed, if they spent some money on artwork they could do "The Adventures of Boaty McBoatface" and work in it's research activities.

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by chiph on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:26AM (#11336812)

A series of young adult adventure novels are easily possible:

"Boaty McBoatface drills for Deep Ice"

"Boaty McBoatface meets Pagophilus the Harp Seal"

"Boaty McBoatface vs. the Clathrates of Doom"

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by uptown on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:20AM (#11335682)

Books. Cartoons. T-shirts. Educational materials. They're short-sighted if they don't see the opportunity to leverage this for good.

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by adwn on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:27AM (#11335700)

Merchandise! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZove4OTtI

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by monk_e_boy on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:39AM (#11336032)

They mentioned this on Radio 1 this morning. First thing the DJ said was 'where can I get a hat with Boaty McBoatface on it'.

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by chris_wot on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @07:41AM (#11335755)

How do you think I found out about this? My 8 year old daughter bounded up to me and said "Dad, you won't believe this amazing thing! Guess what they called a boat!" (and I thought "what? oh alright, I'll go along with it") and I said "I don't know sweety, what did they call it?" - to which she took a deep breath and said "Boaty McBoatface!" and burst into laughter.

Now at the time I thought it was just a silly kid's story. Then I went to the BBC...

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