Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Ah of course. Incidentally Wikipedia tells me that a second is measured by:
the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.[1]
I'm glad that cleared it up :)
Surely the unit should be based on something. Second derivates from dividing up the year via days, hours, minutes, seconds. Shouldn't the base unit be an earth or an earth day? And then divide one of them up into smaller units?
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this is just the first step: generations from now when we all live in space and finish off what we started by switching to decimal time - we'll just deal with kS (about 20 minutes) MS (~12 days) LS (the Indian lakh will give us our day) ....
OK now you're really messing with my mind. What's an S?
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Is that... Brett LEE?
Apparently it's massive in India. He's more a rock star there than a cricket star.
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It's not really "cricket related" in the same way, but this is mine.
Umm, hello, warnings! Not safe for... taste.
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The alternative is (and I'm theorising, not necessarily advocating) is that we're moving into a future where every house has a sky dish on the side of it.
And most households subscribe to sky, those that want sports, get the sports package, those that don't, save that money.
There are countries in the world where the belief that people have a right to free-to-air sports would be seen as bizarre. If this was the US the rugby football union would have its own sky channel which you would probably have to subscribe to in order to get all the games.
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Every now & then one of the Aussie players was wired up for an over or two with some nice kit allowing two-way conversations to their former team-mates now employed as commentators.
They did that here for the 20/20 match between Bangladesh and NZ A or whatever it was called. Fleming was wired up and talking to the commentators, and Styris was wired up for a while as well. Was quite interesting in parts, but a lot of it was "game of two halves, try and get him out" etc.
I would have thought it would annoy the bowler, need a mic somewhere on your chest and a powerpack and transmitter on your belt or something.
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Ooh, Mark broke System. He got the strong tag to stick in the html.
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I have long been an advocate of abandoning time-zones and just running the world with a universal time.
Can you imagine the scrap over which country keeps to keep 'normal time' while the rest of us all have to shift?
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"@danielvettori When Gayle pats, put more fielders in the stands"
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Yeah, the lack of reserve days in this series looks silly. What's the bet it's fine today at McLean Park and they could have played the last 15 overs no problem.
Also, and I suspect this applies to most places around the country, since the washed out test, I think we've had two days of bad weather here in Dunedin.