Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, August 5, 2024

  • Man, NBC did a poor job of broadcasting the men’s 100-meter race. It came down to a photo finish, but the announcing team never mentioned what had to cross first. A foot, hand, or entire body? It wasn’t well until the race was over when Mike Tirico told the viewing audience from inside the studio it was the clavicle.

  • I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I know a world record wasn’t broken, but at some point, a human can only run so fast, and we’ll max out any technological advancement when it comes to shoes and apparel, so at some point, records will no longer be broken. I just wonder how close we are to that moment.
  • The story of Kristen Faulkner is amazing. She took up cycling only seven years ago and won gold over the weekend. She has another event to compete in tomorrow.
    • Faulkner is a relatively newcomer to the sport. She only started cycling in 2017. She lived in NYC and wanted an outdoor activity to balance out her full-time job and tried a free class in NYC’s central park. She told NBC Sports, “I showed up in running shorts and sneakers, and we learned how to clip in and ride around cones,” she wrote. “A few weeks later I won my first race, and that’s when I knew I wanted to see how far I could go in the sport.”
    • In case you are wondering, she went to Harvard but didn’t play any sport, but in high school, she participated in rowing, swimming, and running.
    • This isn’t her in this photo, but I just loved the photo and wanted to share it.
  • Philippines gold medal gymnast Carlos Yulo to receive house, cash, free ramen for life
  • Wow.

  • I recently learned of the world’s largest digital camera, the 3200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera. It is being installed in Chile at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Unlike most cameras that take a single image, this one will scan a particular section of the sky 800 times.
    •  The Telescope’s compact shape allows it to move quickly from one point in the sky to the next. It will image the sky continuously each night, on an automated cadence, and over the course of the ten-year survey will collect about 800 images of each location in the sky. 
  • Louisiana becomes the first to legalize surgical castration for child rapists
    •  As of Thursday, August 1, for the first time in the country’s history, child rapists can now be ordered by a judge to have their testicles removed if the victim is under the age of 13 and if the offender is older than 17 years old. The law already allowed judges to issue an order of chemical castration.
    • The article mentions there are female child rapists, but it doesn’t state a punishment.
  • Cool moment.

  • RFK Jr. admits putting dead bear cub and old bicycle in New York City’s Central Park nearly 10 years ago
    • “So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” Kennedy said. “And you can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.”But the falconing day went longer than expected, and he had to go straight to a dinner in the city at Peter Luger Steakhouse, he recounted. That, too, ran late, and Kennedy said he realized he had to go to the airport and would not be able to go home to Westchester first.“And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” he said.
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