A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD 392
An anonymous reader points out Randall Munroe's latest contribution to public health awareness, a "chart of how much ionizing radiation a person can absorb from various sources, compared visually. 1 Sievert will make you sick, many more will kill you, however, even small doses cumulatively increase cancer risk." It's a good way to think about the difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima.
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Sadly, your average Slashdot reader will instead have to settle for the bananas.
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Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat [youtube.com] and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?
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Wait, if God made bananas easy for humans to eat [youtube.com] and bananas are radioactive does that mean God's trying to kill us ?
No, it means that radiation is God's pure love. In order to get closer to Him, all the truly religious should get as close as possible to the hottest source they can find.
WALK INTO THE LIGHT.
(note : I am joking - I don't really want the faithful to die of radiation damage. I'm not Dawkins, ffs.)
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Inform the news: 1 girl + 2 bananas = radioactive disaster!
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No. They absorb that shit and transform it into Hello Kitty and hentai.
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