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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975 "The standard measure of the biological effect of radiation is the sievert. One sievert is a heck of a big dose, but one tenth of a millionth of a sievert, or 0.1 micro sieverts, is roughly the dose from eating one banana."

Translate this into 'film is dead' threats....

Cheers,

R.
 
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Link works.

So "eating one Banana" is the same as "sleeping with someone" twice ?

That does make you think, doesn't it.

I now have 10 years worth of film in my fridge. Wish I could say the same for Bananas. :angel:
 
ferider said:
Link works.

So "eating one Banana" is the same as "sleeping with someone" twice ?

That does make you think, doesn't it.

I now have 10 years worth of film in my fridge. Wish I could say the same for Bananas. :angel:
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Well, f*** that!

Don't you love risk assessment?

Some risks are worth taking. And if they're only half as bad as eating a banana...

Cheers,

R.
 
I just bought some bananas...
Kids are off at school, wife left today to visit our son in Boston..it's me, the cat and a bunch of bananas for the weekend...
 
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So, I was planning to flight to NY, sleep with someone after eating a banana, but now, knowing that it costs 401.5 miliwhatever, I will probably pass.
I am surprised the Nuclear Summicron is not measured.

Film?
It's dead.
In my freezer...
 
I'm trying to remember how many bananas I ate that day in 1961, when they wouldn't let us kids out to go play in the pink snow that suddenly fell on our town.
 
I undertake risk analyses for a living, mostly in unpredictable biological systems. What this article handily does is provide a real understanding that risk comprises a hazard (in this case radiation), a likelihood (how likely the hazard is to occur) and a consequence (what the outcome is likely to be). Risk lies everywhere. I was in Tokyo last month, I have toured the Chernobyl facility and I fly often. In relation to my long-term health, I am still more concerned that I spend most of my working life at a desk than I am about radiation.

The main difficulty most people face is a lack of impartial information on which to base their understanding of risk.

Marty
 
& going off at a tangent, bananas are good for cardiovascular health because of their potassium content: ~8-10 millimol per banana; generally we have too much salt (sodium) in our diets & too little potassium- salt promotes raised blood pressure. So Roger your risk assessment isn't complete if you ignore the K..
 
Film dino said:
& going off at a tangent, bananas are good for cardiovascular health because of their potassium content: ~8-10 millimol per banana; generally we have too much salt (sodium) in our diets & too little potassium- salt promotes raised blood pressure. So Roger your risk assessment isn't complete if you ignore the K..
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Interestingly, it's the potassium (specifically the radioactive isotope potassium-40) that's responsible for bananas having an above-background radioactivity level. And also responsible for your body having an above-background radioactivity level, for that matter. Actually, pretty much every living thing has above-background radioactivity for that reason: potassium is an essential element, so living things tend to concentrate it at above-background levels.

Some have theorized that the reason multicellular life evolved only when it did is that at the start, the level of K-40 in natural K was such that any multicellular organism would be prone to developing radiation-induced cancer and dying an early death until the level of K-40 eventually dropped to a non-hazardous level as a result of radioactive decay.
 
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