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Thread: Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

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    So, what radiation did Jane receive from Tarzan, while sleeping among banana trees?

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    I love the tagline "A cellphone's transmitter does not produce ionizing radiation* and does not cause cancer.
    *Unless it's a bananaphone"

    Because "living within 50 miles of a nuclear powerplant for a year is equal to eating one banana." I knew there was a reason I don't like bananas!

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    I find this troubling, and a bit confusing.

    Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart-screen-shot-2022-02-09-5.32.04-am.png

    It appears that responders working to rescue people are able to withstand 2 1/2 times the radiation than responders working to save valuable property.

    Can working saving "valuable" people take more radiation than those saving people of less "value" who makes that call?

    How does that work? I realize that it is more important to save people than is it equipment, but people can only take so much radiation, no matter what they are doing.

    What am I missing?

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    I think the chart means to say it is worth absorbing more mSv rescuing people than rescuing property.

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    so should I eat bananas or not?? what about the radaition i got from my cancer treetments that were higher than permited(was waht I was told by tech that gave them to me) 3 or 4 different times trying to kill either me or the cancer. (they may of done both...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by neilbourjaily View Post
    I think the chart means to say it is worth absorbing more mSv rescuing people than rescuing property.
    I understand that concept, but that is not what the chart says.

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    The Banana equivalent dose or BED

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    Asteroid measured in a fraction of a giraffe.

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    I'll get right to work adding African wild animal pieces to my units conversion program. It needs an update anyway; recently I was made aware of some missing entries...

    1 imperial gill = 12 imperial dessertspoons
    1 inferial gill = 11.8294 inferial dessertspoons

    Introducing a living animal into the already overtaxed zoo of Imperial measurement will produce some very thorny problems. The opportunities for humor are sufficiently fertile to encourage a revival of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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