Frequent flyers beware - Radiation

[Delta4Embassy]

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"RADS ON A PLANE: On Nov. 11th, Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com flew from California across the USA to attend a science communications meeting in Washington DC. As an experiment, he decided to take a radiation sensor onboard the plane. The results were eye-opening. During the apex of his flight to DC, cruising 39,000 feet above the desert between Reno and Phoenix, he recorded a dose rate almost 30 times higher than on the ground below:

There was no solar storm in progress. The extra radiation was just a regular drizzle of cosmic rays reaching down to aviation altitudes. This radiation is ever-present and comes from supernovas, black holes, and other sources across the Milky Way.

In a single hour flying between Reno and Phoenix, the passengers on Phillips's flight were exposed to a whole day's worth of ground-level radiation--or about what a person would absorb from an X-ray at the dentist's office. That's not a big deal for an occasional flyer, but as NASA points out, frequent fliers of 100,000 miles or more can accumulate doses equal to 20 chest X-rays or about 100 dental X-rays. Lead aprons, anyone?"

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[Old Rocks]

Well, as someone that does major car trips looking at rock, and just seeing the country, that, too, creates an increased probability of damage to one's body from an accident. Any activity involves a certain degree of danger. And just staying on your coach increases your risk of heart attack. You can't win, you can't break even, you can only attempt to stay in the game a little longer.

 

[Roadrunner]

Well, as someone that does major car trips looking at rock, and just seeing the country, that, too, creates an increased probability of damage to one's body from an accident. Any activity involves a certain degree of danger. And just staying on your coach increases your risk of heart attack. You can't win, you can't break even, you can only attempt to stay in the game a little longer.

Ain't nobody living a second longer than God wills.

 

[Mr. H.]

Any activity involves a certain degree of danger.

Why do you accept the dangers associated with your particular activities?

 

[sjay]

Well, as someone that does major car trips looking at rock, and just seeing the country, that, too, creates an increased probability of damage to one's body from an accident. Any activity involves a certain degree of danger. And just staying on your coach increases your risk of heart attack. You can't win, you can't break even, you can only attempt to stay in the game a little longer.

Ain't nobody living a second longer than God wills.

So when all the innocent young children and babies die that makes god a murderer.