{"id":2256,"date":"2016-10-31T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2016-10-31T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:12:37","slug":"rant-metric-vs-imperial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2016\/10\/rant-metric-vs-imperial\/","title":{"rendered":"Rant: Metric vs. imperial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would assume the case of metric vs. imperial units to be settled <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/the-time-nasa-lost-a-mars-orbiter-because-of-a-metric-system-mixup\">once you lose a $ 327.6 million space mission to faulty calculations involving imperial units<\/a>. Yet, I know staunch defenders of the imperial units system. This rant is for them (transcript follows):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/metric-vs-imperial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/metric-vs-imperial.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/metric-vs-imperial-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade\u2013which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas in the American system, the answer to &#8220;How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?&#8221; is &#8220;Go fuck yourself,&#8221; because you can&#8217;t directly relate any of those quantities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(via @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioVilas\">MarioVilas<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Reddit, the excerpt is from the book &#8220;The Secret Life of Violet Grant&#8221; by Beatriz Williams. Couldn&#8217;t have put it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would assume the case of metric vs. imperial units to be settled once you lose a $ 327.6 million space mission to faulty calculations involving imperial units. Yet, I know staunch defenders of the imperial units system. This rant is for them (transcript follows): In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2016\/10\/rant-metric-vs-imperial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rant: Metric vs. imperial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/old-man-rant.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-Ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}