"Flying and Radiation Risk"

This is a repost of a video which was original posted on this website: http://www.ivanhoe.com/science/story/2009/08/608a.html

It is reposted here because the website video did not have the option to embed the video directly. No claim to the ownership of this media is implied. This is considered to be a fair use of this media.

Note: The claims of this video are being contested by this poster.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• airline
• plane
• flying
• radiation
• health physucs
• hps
• radiation safety
• rems
• milirems
• milirem
• ionizing radiation
• ionizing
• radioactive
• radioactivity
• cosmic rays
• background radiation
• radiation dose
• dosimetry

[lesorciercalifornien]

That being said, that post is 2 years old and should be put in context. Solar minimum is over and output from solar flares and CME's can be expected to increase over the next couple of years till the next solar max.

[lesorciercalifornien]

@gabigowriel I was just stating a scientific fact wih the intent of offsetting some of the fear 'n' loathing the mass media put out there. If you _want_ to live in fear, by all means don't let me stop you.

[gabigowriel]

@lesorciercalifornien "terrorists"?!

oh boy, another brainwashed idiot...

by"chance" , are you american citizen?

...

free cancer for all those on airplanes...

[lesorciercalifornien]

The solar activity cycle is in its deepest and most prolonged minimum in over a century. Even when you fly you get less solar radiation now than at any time since flight was invented. I'd be more woried about bird strikes, drunken pilots and the occasional terrorist. Don't the media do enough fear-mongering already?