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It seems pretty clear that, to come up with these numbers, they took mortality figures from people with lots of exposure, divided their exposure down into small
by jlgreco 13y ago
It seems pretty clear that, to come up with these numbers, they took mortality figures from people with lots of exposure, divided their exposure down into small chunks, and assumed that everything scaled linearly.
I mean really, 1 hour in a coal mine and you get black lung? Absurd. Would 1 minute in a coal mine be 1/60th of a micromort? Would 1 second in a coal mine be 1/3600th of a micromort? Of course not, and of course not. Black Lung is caused by long term exposure.
You are not rolling a million-sided die every hour you are in a coal mine.
- deletes 13y agoThe statement >>1 hour in a coal mine and you get black lung<< is completely wrong. By staying in a coal mine for 1 hour you increase the chance of death by 1 micromort, that by definition means if you did that for about a million times you would very probably die. If the average life expectancy is about 613000 hours, and if you spend every living hour in a coal mine you would still live every other lifespan.