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Anyone watching the 2020 Olympics?

[QUOTE=masser;583852]Anyone watching the 2020 Olympics?[/QUOTE]¿Que?

The 1800 drone facsimile of earth in the opening ceremonies was very cool.

We watched the men's US volleyball team defeat the French and then the women's US water polo team defeat Japan. We were super impressed by the water polo athletes.

It is 2021. Some would argue that the even should be referred to by their sequence, not the year planned for, nor the year held.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;583900]It is 2021. Some would argue that the even should be referred to by their sequence, not the year planned for, nor the year held.[/QUOTE]

You don't like sparse arrays? :wink:

A rose by any other name ... [size=1][color=white]would still smell as awful[/color][/size]

[QUOTE=chalsall;583907]You don't like sparse arrays? :wink:[/QUOTE]
Sequence numbering is better than say, name of host city or year. Both of those are not fully descriptive. 23rd summer Olympiad is definitive. 1976 Olympics is not. Nor is the London Olympics.

They had an inventive name for programs on NBC - "202ONE Olympic games".

But it is funny. it was not all that informative. Whoever was in charge of menu programming made a blooper and all last week while looking forward to events and time them, and maybe record them - they all had verbose description that was to say the very least confusing. not only they didn't list what event one would see in each 3hr programming slot, no! ...They were all marked with description blurb: "2018 PyeongChang Olympics bla bla bla (three lines more of text)." So one could safely assume that they had some reruns. But those were real future slots for 2020 Olympics.

But c'mon - you don't refuse to buy a car that is branded as a "wrong year" vehicle, no? They sell "2022 Toyota Corolla"s already. "No I will not buy it because it is a lie!" Semantics. They just see that as a series of digits in front of a model name. Same with Olympics. Tokyo decided to brand everything "Tokyo 2020". It's everywhere.

Surprise gold medal for Tunisia in the 400 m freestyle from Ahmed Hafnaoui. Amazing race!

[QUOTE=masser;583914]Surprise gold medal for Tunisia in the 400 m freestyle from Ahmed Hafnaoui. Amazing race![/QUOTE]
Indeed, and in lane 1, to boot ("the poorest lane").

[QUOTE=Batalov;583913]They sell "2022 Toyota Corolla"s already.[/QUOTE]
I once came across a Calculus textbook marked "Copyright year N" on sale in May of year N-1.
I wondered if students could simply copy it for the next 7 months.

[QUOTE=Nick;583926]I once came across a Calculus textbook marked "Copyright year N" on sale in May of year N-1.
I wondered if students could simply copy it for the next 7 months.[/QUOTE]In Europe at least, copyright exists from the moment of creation.

This post © 19 January 2038

[QUOTE=xilman;583933]In Europe at least, copyright exists from [b]the moment of creation[/b].[/QUOTE]So from ~13.8GY ago?

This post © retina[sup]®™[/sup] 1 January -13,772,000,000 all rights enforced.

[QUOTE=retina;583934]So from ~13.8GY ago?

This post © retina[sup]®™[/sup] 1 January -13,772,000,000 all rights enforced.[/QUOTE]

Oh come on, you know it's about 6,000 years.

[QUOTE=paulunderwood;583935]Oh come on, you know it's about 6,000 years.[/QUOTE]Okay, you are right.

This post © retina®™ 1 January 4004BC ±13,771,993,975 all rights imposed.

[QUOTE=retina;583940]This post © retina®™ [U]22 October[/U] 4004BC ±13,771,993,975 all rights imposed.[/QUOTE]
Fixed that for you. See [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;583934]So from ~13.8GY ago?

This post © retina[sup]®™[/sup] 1 January -13,772,000,000 all rights enforced.[/QUOTE]Ho, ho, ho. Very droll.

[QUOTE=retina;583940]Okay, you are right.

This post © retina®™ 1 January 4004BC ±13,771,993,975 all rights imposed.[/QUOTE]
nice error bar.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;583944]Fixed that for you. See [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher[/url][/QUOTE]See also [url=http://www.ees.nmt.edu/outside/courses/erth385/ussher.html]Usshering in the Millennium[/url].

Meanwhile, back at the Olympics, I note that NBC is covering what some call the greatest Olympic sport ever - [i]Women's Beach Volleyball![/i]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;583953]...what some call the greatest Olympic sport ever - [i]Women's Beach Volleyball![/i][/QUOTE]
For some teenagers (you know what I mean) it is even a greater sport than gymnastics. :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=retina;583934]So from ~13.8GY ago?

This post © retina[sup]®™[/sup] 1 January -13,772,000,000 all rights enforced.[/QUOTE]
Thank deity that unix time_t extended to 64 bits can actually represent every second of the known universe including this one. Shame no one's considered how we're going to handle time across the multiverse, I guess we'll save that gem for another day[I]s[/I].

First gold medals for Bermuda (triathlon) and the Philippines (weightlifting)! The US and China are neck-and-neck in the total medals count.

Great news that 2 countries won their first golds.
:party:
After a year and a half of global bad news, this is a lovely bright spot that we should all celebrate.
:faf::clap:

Qatar (weightlifting - gold!), San Marino (trap shooting - silver and bronze) and Turkmenistan (weightlifting - silver) also taking first time medals for their countries.

The swimming races are fun to watch; one of my minions really enjoys the indoor volleyball matches.

I have been away from the Great and Mighty TV for the last week. But I heard that there is a mixed 4x100m relay running race. That might be interesting to watch.