{"id":1387,"date":"2007-01-13T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2007-01-13T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T18:16:35","slug":"how-to-convert-you-to-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"How to convert you to metric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his week&#8217;s most interesting story goes to this Slashdot discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/askslashdot\/07\/01\/12\/2338259.shtml\">&#8220;How can we convert the US to the Metric system&#8221;<\/a>. Most likely the question popped up, because of NASA&#8217;s recent announcement to go completely metric for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/070108_moon_metric.html\">future mission(s) to Mars<\/a>. NASA&#8217;s annoucement was well-received by 13 other space agencies. According to a NASA development lead:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;When we made the announcement at the meeting, the reps for the other space agencies all gave a little cheer.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>But back to that Slashdot thread, the question how to convince people always leads me to the classic sample that showcases the metric system perfectly: how many kilograms does a litre of water weigh? Another brilliant question is what <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=216652&#038;cid=17589206\">this Slashdot user asks<\/a>: &#8220;How many cubic inches makes up a gallon&#8221;. If you know the answer&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=metric&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">Earlier on xsamplex.<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s most interesting story goes to this Slashdot discussion: &#8220;How can we convert the US to the Metric system&#8221;. Most likely the question popped up, because of NASA&#8217;s recent announcement to go completely metric for their future mission(s) to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}