Comments on: Nuclear radiation paranoid’s handy reference [UPDATED 3/22] http://www.kurzweilai.net/nuclear-radiation-paranoids-handy-reference Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:33:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Logic http://www.kurzweilai.net/nuclear-radiation-paranoids-handy-reference/comment-page-1#comment-2918 Logic Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:01:28 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=112833#comment-2918 Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that you've only included this tiny bit of the whole chart. Why this bit, anyway? It's the chart taken as a WHOLE that makes its point and provides context. Yeah, I’m a bit surprised that you’ve only included this tiny bit of the whole chart. Why this bit, anyway? It’s the chart taken as a WHOLE that makes its point and provides context.

]]> By: silicaroach http://www.kurzweilai.net/nuclear-radiation-paranoids-handy-reference/comment-page-1#comment-2893 silicaroach Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:08:52 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=112833#comment-2893 This is a bit disingenuous. Take the time to look at the actual link: http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Note that the above truncated chart leaves out the interesting item that a flight from NY to LA is roughly equivalent to 2 chest x-rays, or that a chest CT scan is 6 times the external dose from Three Mile Island. This is a bit disingenuous. Take the time to look at the actual link:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Note that the above truncated chart leaves out the interesting item that a flight from NY to LA is roughly equivalent to 2 chest x-rays, or that a chest CT scan is 6 times the external dose from Three Mile Island.

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