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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
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.
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.
Ooooh! Scary picture!
If shown to scale and going by the size of the sun as shown, earth wouldn’t even be in the same room with you. Somewhere down the street...
i go up as often as I can.
Tomorrow I’ll fly from fl37 to either Sebring or Venice Florida for breakfast then back and will get up as high as I can, look around at GODS earth then come back to land. May do a touch and go at Indiantown and or Pahokee and if it is the equilavent of a chest x-ray, well it is worth it.