I estimate my radiation dose for my day as ...
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Errors, Errors everywhere... (Score:5, Insightful)
Somehow, we've found a poll with worse numbering than the one that assumed most people were born within 20 miles of their current home. [slashdot.org]
At least it was possible for someone to live within 20 miles of home. Here, though, the only option that's possible to select is the last. That is, unless a "bunch" is defined as "all of the bananas found in a typical large grocery store."
Re:Answering less than a bunch... (Score:4, Insightful)
That may be true for an uneaten banana, but once you eat it you put that radiation inside your body where it does far more harm [...]
That's completely false. As explained in Wikipedia [wikipedia.org],
According to Bowes and Church's nutrition guide, the dose equivalent of eating a banana is about 0.01 mrem (or 0.1 Sv). [my emphasis]
So, just standing near a banana has no real measurable effect on your health, you have to eat it to get the 0.01 mrem. Furthermore, it also says:
When you eat a banana, your body's level of Potassium-40 doesn't increase. You just get rid of some excess Potassium-40. The net dose of a banana is zero.