{"id":1930,"date":"2011-08-16T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/08\/16\/54-hair-widths-of-change\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:48:24","slug":"54-hair-widths-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/08\/16\/54-hair-widths-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"54 hair-width&rsquo;s of change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my life time, that\u2019s how much the radius of the earth has changed, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2011-254&amp;rn=news.xml&amp;rst=3104\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The scientists estimated the average change in Earth&#8217;s radius to be 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per year, or about the thickness of a human hair, a rate considered statistically insignificant. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am sure you were waiting with bated breath for that bit of news!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just wondering if that means 108 hair-widths for the diameter??<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"don_sig2\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/don_sig22.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my life time, that\u2019s how much the radius of the earth has changed, according to NASA. The scientists estimated the average change in Earth&#8217;s radius to be 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per year, or about the thickness of a human hair, a rate considered statistically insignificant. I am sure you were waiting with bated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[72,65,56],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-v8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}