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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: average joe who wrote (7713)10/19/2006 11:06:02 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) of 36918
 
When I said

"I reckon more then 50 people died in Scotland"

I didn't say how many more people. Crichton is not the only person who can think in non linear terms. Several bits of highly radioactive reactor fell on Scotland, and these were immediately detected on the nuclear power stations where they fell. The obvious question is were they the only bits that fell on the country that day? I have my own thoughts, and the calculation is fairly straight forward. There are several areas where you still cannot legally collect the milk in Scotland, even today.

Crichton was going to write a book about a disaster, but not enough people died fast enough at Chernobyl for movie appeal. Too bad. This does not make him a natural or appropriate candidate for environmental damage assessment.

Going by your quotes by him, he likes to think he is the centre of the universe, but he ain't.

He could do with reading a little of Copernicus. Just the earth rotates around the sun bit (i.e. not the other way about). It might give him a clue.

Finally you misquoted the BBC site regarding Chernobyl. It said "Chernobyl, site of the best known industrial accident in recent years". It did not say "global scale disaster". You created the straw man and killed it. Big deal.

Just like your quotes by Ayn Rand, the only question is "what the hell has her book of fiction got to do with the price of tea"...so she didn't define what a scientist was in her book....

and ???
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