Sunday, March 20, 2011

Keeping Radiation in Perspective

As usual, Randal Munroe does another top-notch job of explaining physics, quelling panic, and poking fun at ninnies (very gently this time) all at once with his new radiation chart.
Here's Munroe's blag entry on the matter.  Go read the whole thing, it's short.
Here's the chart (click to enbiggen):
And here's Munroe's disclaimer on the matter: "... it's for general education only.  If you're basing radiation safety procedures on an internet PNG image and things go wrong, you have no one to blame but yourself."  Hard to argue with that advice.

On that note, I'll be hitting the mean streets of BSL on the CX bike now.

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