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Posted on 10/26/2013 6:59:16 PM PDT by oxcart
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So we should stop flying and going outside. I hate these people.
Which pales to insignificance compared to the carton-of-cigarettes equivalent the pilot inhales during the stop in Beijing.
Whatever.
I’m uh gonna die from hiking and snowboarding at 10,000-15,000 feet.
Gamma sum uh that luvin
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Why oh why would a SCIENCE outfit like NASA report radiation exposure in “chest xrays”? Why not Sieverts or milliRems? Then the concerned reader could look up the relative risks.
“Chest Xray” dose depends on the machine, what the tech sets it to, what is ning imaged. It’s not a number like “five”.
Here is a neat calculator. I use 20 minutes for climbup and climbdown.
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/home/radiation_profile
Actually staying inside does little good unless you live in a building with thick concrete roof and walls.
If you decide to move to a cave make sure it is a limestone cave because most other caves will have radioactive material in the walls.
No radon seepage from limestone?
Something not mentioned in the article is the type of radiation you get on a plane.
At altitude you can get very high energy neutrons, mesons, xrays, gammas, cosmic ray secondaries, and the interactions of all these things with the plane.
Not exactly the bremsstrahlung you get from an xray tube.
bremsstrahlung sounds like some kind of bizarre German sex act.
It IS! A particle SLAMS into a dense target and converts its kinetic energy into xray photons! Slam slam slam! In an xray tube it’s electrons pumped up with high voltage. in a plane it could be a proton humping into the aluminum skin.
Fortunately for many airline pilots they will spend several years on the bench at least once in their career on furlough.
Very rare.
Radon leakage requires that there be Uranium ore in the rock.
Limestone is sedimentary rock laid down in prehistoric oceans consisting of shells of microscopic animals.
” in a plane it could be a proton humping into the aluminum skin.”
Does the aluminum get pregnant?
“Ever really think about where honey comes from? “
I heard it wss bee barf!
The article has convinced me. I’m going to live at the bottom of an old ICBM silo and never see the sun again.
Sheesh.
My original dentist once told me that the amount of radiation received by a dental X-ray wasn’t much — equal to the amount I’d get walking around in the Sun for a year. :’) Thanks oxcart.
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