Comments on: Steve Smith’s number one priority on a Test tour https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/ Independent and irreverent cricket writing Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:38:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.3 By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271585 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:38:39 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271585 In reply to A P Webster.

It did also helpfully add that ” It’s important to note that this is a thought experiment and the actual scale of the universe is much larger and distances between cricket venues are much smaller.”

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By: A P Webster https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271584 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:36:17 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271584 In reply to A P Webster.

ChatGPT got this one right, slightly worryingly, although I think the other team might have buzzed before it completed this ‘thought’ process –

“One light year is approximately 9.461 x 10^12 meters. Using the scale you provided of the earth and sun being one meter apart on the Old Trafford cricket ground, a distance of one light year would be equivalent to a distance of approximately 9.461 x 10^12 meters away from Old Trafford. This would be roughly equivalent to the distance between Old Trafford and the Headingley cricket ground in Leeds, which is located about 62 km (38.5 miles) north-east of Old Trafford.”

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271581 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:31:16 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271581 In reply to Bert.

Many thanks to Sam for that link. I find it hugely reassuring (and unsurprising) to learn that Australia is the place where Bill Gates reckons he can make the most progress in reducing noxious, environment-destroying, hot gaseous emissions.

Would David Warner and/or Matthew Hayden, for example, be interested in assisting with this social enterprise?

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271580 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:39:11 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271580 In reply to Bert.

Impressive stuff, thanks. I’m particularly impressed that the area per glass unit has been used.

The obvious conclusion from this is that it is all the fault of cows. They simply aren’t efficient enough, and they are farting way too much.

The answer is therefore simple – hypercows. Hypercows will be larger than normal cows, and will come in a range of colours to suit every field. Importantly, they will be able to produce one litre of finest milk for every square metre of grass eaten (thus making them SI Hypercows).

To achieve this level of conversion, they will need sixteen stomachs and four mouths. Essentially they will be four normal cows grafted onto each other and painted in nice colours. Mine would be orange. Also, something would need to be done about the farting, and about the now superfluous twelve legs. These are details that can be left till the initial trials have been done.

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By: Sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271579 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:25:38 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271579 In reply to Bert.

While we’re vaguely skirting around the subject, now feels as good a time as any to enjoy the news that Bill Gates is going to stop cow farts:

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/sustainability/bill-gates-invests-in-perth-startup/

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By: Sam https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271578 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:21:40 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271578 In reply to sam.

Sympathy?

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By: Ged Ladd https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271577 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:38:23 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271577 In reply to Bert.

The BBC = a field of fact herbivores:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46654042

Yes it’s complicated, Bert. That article doesn’t do the comparison per g of protein, for example. Nor does it talk about hemp milk which sounds like more fun than oat milk. Nor, for some inexplicable reason, does that article talk about the relative amounts of swing that might derive from the application of each milky substance to a cricket ball.

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271576 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:37:38 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271576 In reply to Ged Ladd.

Concentration.

The animal food chain can be essentially understood as “Nutrients are thinly spread, how can I get enough with less effort?” Herbivores do the first bit – they wake up, start eating, don’t stop eating, and then go to sleep. In doing so they concentrate nutrients into a small space (e.g. a cow). Carnivores sit watching all this, probably under a tree, and then just go an take all those lovely nutrients in one tasty cow-based meal. Half an hour’s work, back to the tree for a snooze.

That’s the bit I don’t get about oat milk and its environmental credentials. To concentrate enough nutrients into it, we would need to be more efficient than a cow. Admittedly, cows eat grass, but I’m sure they could eat oats if they wanted to. By the time we’ve grown enough oats to make oat milk nutritious, have we not destroyed several rainforests? What is the nutritiousness of oat milk, expressed in the usual units of acres per glass?

I could look all this up, but I am feeling fact-carnivorous. I need a field full of fact-herbivores to do the rumination. Then I will eat them.

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271575 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:24:06 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271575 In reply to sam.

A metaphor?

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By: Bert https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/steve-smiths-number-one-priority-on-a-test-tour/2023/01/23/#comment-271574 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:23:30 +0000 https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/?p=28066#comment-271574 In reply to Sam.

Is it The Moon?

Is it The Moon, but smaller?

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