I estimate my radiation dose for my day as ...
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Answering less than a bunch... (Score:5, Informative)
...is just not possible. One banana is about 0.01 mrem. According to the NRC's annual radiation dose calculator [nrc.gov], I get about 301.016 mrem per year. On a daily basis, that means 0.8247 mrem, or about 82.5 bananas per day. That makes for quite a large bunch (at least, by grocery store standards - Wikipedia says they grow in 3-20 tiers per cluster, with up to 20 fruits per tier).
Banana equivalent dose (Score:3, Informative)
and
i might loose some carma points for pointing this out on a /., though.
Re:Answering less than a bunch... (Score:4, Informative)
Came here to post the same thing. I used the handy XKCD radiation chart [xkcd.com] to conservatively estimate that I'm receiving at least 100 banana's worth per day.
Handy Chart (Score:4, Informative)
Courtesy of XKCD here is a handy chart of exposure levels:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
1 banana = 2x sleeping next to someone who would have known ?
Re:Answering less than a bunch... (Score:4, Informative)