2011-03-18, 10:20 PM
Kalovale Wrote:Geez, captain obvious. Let me tell you something, the statement "over 600k" is NOT true. It is true in a mathematical sense, but we are not finding an unknown that satisfies a function here. We are talking about news report, facts. You either claim something, or shut the pineapple up, there's no place for "either this or anything larger than it". No, it does not work that way. I can spit out such nonsense too: "There will be over 1000 dead victims from this disaster." See? It offers no insight and is nothing more than garbage.
Their concern IS valid, however, and that's why I bother at all to alleviate the tension of the concern to 70%. I just have a problem with their 600k claim and your effort in blindly backing it up, by math too, goddamn.
And I simply have a problem with your original statement.
Quote:((3,450 * 6) + 6,291) * 63 = 1,700,433; not over 600,000Which... doesnt make a lot of sense and is self contradictory.
Anyway, are we going to peach over something minor neither of us have a lot of information about (or can explain), or can we get back to the issue at hand?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ds-newsxml
Quote:However, footage suggested much of the 2,000 gallons of water missed its target.
Later, six fire engines and a water cannon tried to spray the building with 9,000 gallons of water from high pressure hoses. However, radiation levels within the plant rose from 3,700 millisieverts to 4,000 millisieverts an hour immediately afterwards.
People exposed to such doses will suffer radiation sickness and many will die. Today Tokyo Electric Power, which owns the plant, will try to restart the reactor's cooling systems after workers connected a half mile long power cable from the national grid to Reactor 2.
Spokesman Teruaki Kobayashi said: 'This is the first step towards recovery.'
He added: 'We are doing all we can as we pray for the situation to improve.'
Last night 14,000 were confirmed dead or missing in Japan and 492,000 are homeless. There are 850,000 households in the north of the main island without electricity in freezing temperatures.