{"id":165,"date":"2008-05-26T03:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/26\/bbc-invents-new-si-unit\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T03:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T02:29:55","slug":"bbc-invents-new-si-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/26\/bbc-invents-new-si-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC invents new SI unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7411113.stm\">reports<\/a>: &#8220;The Mars Phoenix lander touched down &#8230; after a 680-million-km journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amused by &#8220;million kilometre&#8221; as a unit of measurement.  What happened to the gigametre?  Why mix french and greek? Perhaps this is actually a clever new idea.  We could start measuring hard disk capacity like &#8220;350 million kilobytes&#8221; to emphasise just how mindbogglngly large they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News reports: &#8220;The Mars Phoenix lander touched down &#8230; after a 680-million-km journey&#8221;. I&#8217;m amused by &#8220;million kilometre&#8221; as a unit of measurement. What happened to the gigametre? Why mix french and greek? Perhaps this is actually a clever new idea. We could start measuring hard disk capacity like &#8220;350 million kilobytes&#8221; to emphasise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}