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The recent mention of water polo is the inspiration of the idea as is the Tom Holt book Valhalla.
Why not turn many slow chemical processes into a sport ? A precise measurement is offered by computer monitored sensors, and all contestants have to do is get closest to the ideal elapsed time the competition
telemetry records.
Can you assert the exact time it takes paint to dry within 1 second accuracy ? Or the time it takes a polo mint to dissolve ?
Will It Dissolve?
Will_20It_20Dissolve
[phoenix, Aug 09 2009]
Clock reaction
http://en.wikipedia...dine_clock_reaction
[Gamma48, Aug 11 2009]
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You mean a sport with less athletic requirements than luge? |
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Perhaps one could take a guess at which of a large number of genetically challenged individuals in near identical cars might be the first to complete a predetermined number of repeats of a simple manouver such as negotiating an oval track? |
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Or if we wish to add some skill, we could make estimations of the time which will elapse while monocotyledons increase their height to reach a set goal. |
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//while monocotyledons increase their height// |
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//You mean a sport with less athletic requirements than luge//
//Or curling//
You've obviously never lifted a curling stone, [21Q] |
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That's a faulty link, [Phoenix]. I just don't see how you are going to decide the cutoffs, one could always go a second longer and get lower ppms. Also, paint drying is not a reaction, per se. |
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No, but they could both be equally exciting. |
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If you were familiar with the sport of curling (by being forced to watch it with in-laws...), Copro, you would know that the object of curling is not to lift the stone, but to slide it. On ice. It's essentially shuffleboard made bigger, and has been referred to a "chess on ice". In the Wikipedia article on the subject, there is a photograph of the game being played by men in business suits and bowler hats. Hardly an athletic event. |
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Yeah but the sweeping takes it out of you. |
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Oh yeah, I bet! Ask any housewife, she'll tell ya. |
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//...game being played by men in business suits and bowler hats. Hardly an athletic event.// |
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I'd never thought of judging an individual's energy output by their attire. |
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I guess this means the two guys who do the London marathon in a pantomime horse outfit every year must expend virtually no energy? |
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It would be nice if 21 found a place, not here, to blog his/her rants and stereotypes. This, of course, may be construed as a rant in its own right. Bah. |
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Back to the idea. I think this would be best worked out with tasty chemical reactions. The participants taste their way to decision, that is. Acid/base reactions would do just fine. An easy way to determine who waited too long to answer this way, chemical burns on the tongue and what not. |
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// chemical burns on the tongue and what not // |
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I don't really see this an endurance type thing but just judging something almost imperceptible, something that would take extreme skill. Not a chemical process but maybe use the plant growing idea to make a ruler (unmarked) gradually extend upwards from a base. Buzz when it reaches 10cm. This could be like high-jump where you get individual attempts. |
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Another idea could use light sources to make a light change colour. The goal is to see when it transfers into a non sRGB represented colour. When you buzz, the gamut is run to verify your accuracy. |
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I think the poster here has missed the difference between a
sport and a game. Chess, for instance, is not considered a sport.
Nor is Chinese Checkers, or Backgammon. Neither should this.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but please don't call it a sport,
because it's not. |
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That's not very sporting of you old chap. |
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