{"id":3430,"date":"2009-08-18T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2009-08-18T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T08:00:26","slug":"ice-to-see-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3430","title":{"rendered":"Ice to See You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/17\/sports\/17ice.html?_r=1\">NY Times: For Winter Games in Vancouver, Ice Isn\u2019t So Easy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou can\u2019t just go out there and make ice,\u201d said Hans Wuthrich, in charge of the surface at the newly built curling arena, where the final step is a delicate spritz of scientifically configured water droplets strong enough to alter the course of 44 pounds of sliding granite.<\/p>\n<p>The five ice specialists, each with deep Canadian ties, have extensive experience from previous Olympics. On behalf of ice, they helped design new locales and the upgrades to existing ones. They toured Vancouver\u2019s water-treatment plants to study their product\u2019s key ingredient. They ponder every ice-dooming possibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: For Winter Games in Vancouver, Ice Isn\u2019t So Easy \u201cYou can\u2019t just go out there and make ice,\u201d said Hans Wuthrich, in charge of the surface at the newly built curling arena, where the final step is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}