The Fate of Boaty McBoatface & UAE Wants to Build a Mountain!
Welcome back to SciShow News! The internet has spoken and it shall be ‘considered’. . .Boaty McBoatface will be bestowed upon a drone ship aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough. That and the UAE are planning on building a mountain!
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Sources:
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/8/11606554/nerc-rrs-david-attenborough-boaty-mcboatface-explained
http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2016/03/27/boaty-mcboatface-internet-craze-priceless-publicity/#38b764793b0f
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652
http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=98
http://gizmodo.com/hell-no-the-uae-should-not-build-a-rain-making-mountai-1775007447
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0505/Could-a-man-made-mountain-increase-rainfall-in-the-United-Arab-Emirates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/02/the-uae-may-build-a-mountain-to-make-it-rain/
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html
Images:
https://reg.nerc.ac.uk/images/nprv-highres.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Attenborough_(cropped).jpg#/media/File:David_Attenborough.jpg
https://reg.nerc.ac.uk/images/mas3-highres.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research#/media/File:National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder,_Colorado.jpg
