"A fool chooses to starve

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"A fool chooses to starve himself and we all
watch. One billion people have no choice and we
ignore them."
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David BlaineDavid Blaine is spending 44 days
in a transparent box hanging over the Thames. In
the next 44 days I will

• Spend 15 days and 14 hours asleep.
• 8.5 hours per night ? 44 374
• Spend 8 days and 10? hours at school.
• 380 minutes/day ? 32 school days 12160 mins
• Earn 111.
• 6 Saturdays ? ( 15 paper round 3.50 pocket
  money ) 111

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• Have 17 hours of trampolining lessons
• ( 7 Mondays ? 1 hour ) ( 6 Wednesdays ? 1?
  hours ) 17 hours
• Be given 80 pieces of homework.
• Monday ? Thursday 10 pieces
• 10 pieces / 4 days ? 32 school days 80 pieces
• Eat around 1.76kg of cereal.
• 40 g per day ? 44 days
• Consume around 80 000 kCal.
• 1800 to 1900 per day ? 44 days

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• Deliver roughly 750 newspapers.
• Between 16 and 18 per day (depends on who is on
  holiday, if it is a weekend etc) ? 44 days
• Read around 8000 column inches of newspaper
• Average of roughly 30 minutes per day or more, at
  a speed of 60 inches per 10 minutes
• Notice about 88 news stories about David
  Blaine!
• 2 per day ? 44 days
• Watch almost 57 hours of television
• 9 hours per week ? 6 2/7 weeks
• Drink 66 litres of water.
• 1.5 litres a day over 44 days

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Water

• David Blaine is spending 44 days and 44 nights
  with no food, only water. Suspended in a glass
  box next to the River Thames he will try to
  accomplish this feat.
• Facts
• on average David Blaine will drink 5 litres of
  water a day
• in the River Thames each day in summer 30,000
  maxilitres of water flow past
• each day in winter 800 maxilitres flow past
• 1 maxilitre 1000 litres

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Boxed In
If we take the average human volume to be 4ft
cubed and the box that David Blaine is in, is
7x7x3ft or 147ft cubed then you could fit 36.75
people in the box. If there are 1 billion people
starving in the world then to fit them all in
boxes you would need 272 000 000 boxes to fit
them all in. if placed side by side the ground
space would equal 5712000000 ft squared, roughly
the size of the united Arab Emirates.
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Above The Below with mini battenbergs
If Davids box was stuffed with Mr Kiplings mini
Battenbergs and he was to eat the recommended
daily intake of calories per day, how long would
the Battenbergs last?
A mini battenburg measures approximately 6cm by
2.5cm by 2.5cm. The box is 3ft by 7ft by 7ft,
which is approximately 91cm by 213cm by
213cm. Volume of Battenberg 37.5cm3 Volume of
box 4128579cm3
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The volume of David Blaine The body consists
mainly of water. 1 gram of water is 1 cubic
centimetre. If David blaine weighs 76kg or 76000g
(12 stone), his volume would be
76000cm3. Number of Battenbergs you can fit in
the box with David (Volume of box Volume of
David Blaine) / Volume of Battenberg (4128579
76000) / 37.5 108069
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However, some of the Battenbergs will be
compressed under the weight of the Battenbergs
above. To compensate for this, we will say that
you can fit 110000 Battenbergs in the box. The
amount of calories in one Battenberg is 142. This
means that there are around 15,620,000 calories
in the box. (110000 x 142) Well round it off to
16,000,000 calories. For a man, the recommended
daily intake of calories per day is 2500. There
are 6400 days worth of calories. (16,000,000 /
2500) The mini Battenbergs will last
approximately 18 years (rounded to the nearest
year).