4th August 2004, 5:41 PM
360 was the first reported number, I think that number too is a result of accidental recounting (which is understandable mind you). Like you though, I think it'll be in the hundreds still...
As far as news sites, no, I don't spend a lot of time at them. "It happened 3 days ago" means nothing to me. Should I know it if it happened then? That's still VERY recent to me. In fact, there are a LOT of events like this that I generally don't even look into. I'll look into the major stuff, and then sometimes, maybe once a month or so, I'll notice some particularly interesting "human tragedy" headline. This was one of those times. Now, ask me about recent scientific breakthroughs, I'm generally all over that. That's the stuff I read daily :D. (And no, NOT from CNN! Oh <insert diety here> no! They go over the most sensational part (and if that doen't exist, they'll take something out of context) and a lot of the time, they don't even bother providing a decent source. So, isntead I spend time at places like nasa.gov and such, to get the full story. Remember, in science there is NOT "two sides to every debate", there is the observed evidence and the people who are flat out wrong. Politics is where two intelligent people with good logic and correct facts can fall on two sides of an issue, not science.
As far as news sites, no, I don't spend a lot of time at them. "It happened 3 days ago" means nothing to me. Should I know it if it happened then? That's still VERY recent to me. In fact, there are a LOT of events like this that I generally don't even look into. I'll look into the major stuff, and then sometimes, maybe once a month or so, I'll notice some particularly interesting "human tragedy" headline. This was one of those times. Now, ask me about recent scientific breakthroughs, I'm generally all over that. That's the stuff I read daily :D. (And no, NOT from CNN! Oh <insert diety here> no! They go over the most sensational part (and if that doen't exist, they'll take something out of context) and a lot of the time, they don't even bother providing a decent source. So, isntead I spend time at places like nasa.gov and such, to get the full story. Remember, in science there is NOT "two sides to every debate", there is the observed evidence and the people who are flat out wrong. Politics is where two intelligent people with good logic and correct facts can fall on two sides of an issue, not science.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)