The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley, first line of The Go-Between
Today's missive: the 1999 Tour de France, as a single 3-hour film presentation. Check local listings.
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Phil Liggett is commenting. But he is young! The sprints sound like a horse race, and Liggett gets all the way to the end of the sentences at-tempo.
📣 "the sprints sound like a horse race". that is a good thing. the past is another country.
The 第一 stage is preceded by a short about all the steps the Tour de France is taking to prevent performance-enhancing drug usage.
✨ we use 第一 because of the uncertainty. It was before "the first stage", which is the second stage. The first stage was called the prologue, and didn't count in the numbering.
🌎 Also, possibly I misremembered, and it was in fact before the prologue.
⚙️ 我们为什么有“美”或“法”有很多的意思？
The broadcast expresses hope that a new voice can lead the Tour to a doping-free era: Lance Armstrong.
Should a travelogue focus on the sameness, or the differentness?
... as the high-speed camera captures images, it is focused on the finish line area. The camera is typically positioned perpendicular to the finish line, and its sensor is designed to have an extremely narrow width, often just one pixel wide. In this context, a "pixel" refers to the smallest individual element that makes up an image.
With the camera's sensor having only one-pixel width, it essentially captures a line of information rather than a full two-dimensional image. As the athletes cross the finish line, they move through this one-pixel-wide line, creating a "slice" of data for each frame captured by the camera.
By knowing the frame rate of the camera (how many images it captures per second) and the distance between each pixel, officials can calculate the exact moment when each athlete's body crossed the finish line.
💡 the machine doesn't yet grok how photography works, so a few paragraphs have been diked out.
⚙️ diked - 从 (diagonal cutter) + -ed.grok - 知道，认识。