{"id":965,"date":"2003-03-01T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/snowflake-pictures\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:43:31","slug":"snowflake-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/01\/snowflake-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowflake pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15192,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.its.caltech.edu\\\/~atomic\\\/snowcrystals&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310100422\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.its.caltech.edu\\\/~atomic\\\/snowcrystals\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:20:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 07:35:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 07:35:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15193,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/02\\\/28\\\/1326230&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=134&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/02\\\/28\\\/1326230&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/\" title=\"Snow Crystals\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A single snowflake\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/03\/graphics\/snowflake.jpg\" width=\"174\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gorgeous pictures of snowflakes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~atomic\/snowcrystals\/\" title=\"Snow Crystals\">this site<\/a>, along with more information than I ever thought there would be about the little buggers.<\/p>\n<p>My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were <em>really<\/em> all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a <em>lot<\/em> of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>That said, though, I never got quite this into examining snow. Probably because the downside to examining snowflakes was being out in the cold, and at ten years old, I was a bit short of the capital it would take to build my own laboratory for experiments like this. Bummer!<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/02\/28\/1326230&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=134\" title=\"\/.: Snowflake photos\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents have often teased me about how long it would take me to walk the three blocks to school when I was a kid, usually assuming that I had to examine every snowflake I saw to see if they were really all different. In normal Alaskan winters, of course, there are a lot of snowflakes. Even in only three blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}