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Chart showing radiation doses, in perspective (from XKCD)
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| 3/18/2011
| XKCD
Posted on 03/20/2011 3:37:01 PM PDT by DBrow
XKCD is an online cartoonist who has a science background. He has a chart that shows how much dose you get from what, and presents the data as color-coded areas. He even includes the dose you get from yourself (potassium-40), flying in a plane, the famous "chest xray" often used for comparison. You can compare doses by comparing areas, very clever.
Every time I post something from XKCD, someone complains about me "pimping my blog", so to be proactive, this is not a blog, it is not MY blog, I get nothing from this. XKCD has built an interesting table and I'm sharing it with FreeRepublic because we have been discussing radiation issues recently.
TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: radiation; radiationdose; sievert
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:37:04 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
Every time I post something from XKCD, someone complains about me "pimping my blog", so to be proactive, this is not a blog, it is not MY blog, I get nothing from this. XKCD has built an interesting table and I'm sharing it with FreeRepublic because we have been discussing radiation issues recently. Then post the pic. Geesh.
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:42:31 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
To: Cyber Liberty
We’re doomed! Where can I get postasium iodide in massive quantities? I’ll mortgage my house to get some!
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Sulzberger Family Motto: Trois generations d'imbeciles, assez)
To: Cyber Liberty
Thanks, I didn’t think of that!
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:48:35 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I can sell you dihydrogen monoxide, it will protect you!
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:49:34 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
Dihydrogen monoxide!!! People die!!! DIE! DIIIIEEEE! when their lungs fill up with that stuff!!!!!!
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:52:39 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Sulzberger Family Motto: Trois generations d'imbeciles, assez)
To: DBrow
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:53:29 PM PDT
by
Springfield Reformer
(Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
To: DBrow
I can sell you dihydrogen monoxide, it will protect you!
You still have dihydrogen monoxide? I thought the EPA made it illegal. Do you know the amount of deaths it causes every year?
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:53:53 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: DBrow
I heard that stuff is poisonous. People bathed in it have been known to die horribly.
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:53:53 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
To: Cyber Liberty
Has CNN seen this chart yet?
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:54:45 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: DBrow
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:55:07 PM PDT
by
brivette
To: EGPWS
Seen and ignored, I assure you.
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posted on
03/20/2011 3:57:01 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
To: Cyber Liberty
Seen and ignored, I assure you.So life as we know it on Earth is still over as far as CNN is concerned.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:02:51 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Cyber Liberty
Excellent. It would have been nice to have included the yearly exposure of folks in certain places of Brazil and France who have an 800 mSv exposure without any increase in cancer rates.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:05:33 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: DBrow
...the water molecule has the chemical formula H2O, meaning each molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Literally, the term "dihydrogen monoxide" means "two hydrogen, one oxygen", consistent with its molecular formula
The dihydrogen monoxide hoax is a deception that involves the use of an unfamiliar name for water..
Never knew, but then again some things are best not to know, clutters up the mind.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:08:57 PM PDT
by
Koracan
To: EGPWS
Like when the plane landed in LA and
radiation was detected on one passenger. It was a whole 1 microsievert. Oh noooes!
The poor passenger got about 100x more radiation exposure by flying across the Pacific in the first place.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:13:01 PM PDT
by
Gideon7
To: EGPWS
Send them the link, can’t hurt. Maybe if there are 200 references to it they’ll read it.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:41:25 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Yes, it’s dangerous, but an eight-foot thick barrier of it will shield you from spent fuel rods. How ironic, eh?
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:42:32 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Koracan
Well, OK, I’ll sell hydric acid, instead of DHMO.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:43:49 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Gideon7
A Sievert is a dose. What they detected was a microSievert per hour, most likely. You absorb a Sievert, you are exposed to a field of Sv/time, usually an hour.
Wonderful “journalism”.
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posted on
03/20/2011 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
DBrow
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