Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's right.
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Although that still wouldn't leave much room for farming or industry.
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So I imagine humankind would soon die out if we all moved to Hong Kong.
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And it's often said that everyone in the world could comfortably fit into an area the size of Texas, at the population density of a city like London or New York.
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It is big.
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But if we were all prepared to live like they do in New York, which is twice as densely populated as London, everyone on the planet would fit into Texas.
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No problem.
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That's right.
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After a recent Wall Street Journal article calculated that baseball fans only get to see 18 minutes of action during the course of a game that lasts, on average, three hours and three minutes, we thought we'd see how much action cricket fans get to see over the course of a six-hour day.
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Factoring in times for bowlers' run-ups, deliveries and runs off the bat, we came up with one hour and two minutes of action.
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Roughly two-thirds of that is taken up by bowlers running into bowl.
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This takes on average five seconds for each delivery.
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And the rest of the time is taken up by the ball running over the outfield as batsmen hit runs and boundaries.
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So in terms of minutes of action per hour, baseball delivers six minutes and cricket ten, making baseball the dullest game in the world.
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apart from golf.
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83 million people visited the country last year, comfortably outstripping its population of 66 million.
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And that's 16 million more visitors than the United States in second place, with China, Spain and Italy completing the top five most visited countries.
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And if you look at how much France is earning per tourist, it does even worse.
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It's about $650.
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Tourists visiting the UK spend twice that, and visitors to the US spend almost three times as much.
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