☢ Cosmic Radiation - A Breif Explaination ☢

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I talk about the radiation which comes from space and hits us. The sources for most of the radiation were our sun and extrasolar sources, i.e. deep space. Much of the radiation which bombarded me on my recent airplane trips went undetected by my device, being proton, neutron, and other such heavy nucleons. Generally speaking, most of the radiation which impacted me that flight was harmless, in the scheme of things. My entire trip of 10 hours (four 2.5 hour flights) probably subjected me to, at most, 3 mrems of radiation (30 uSv). This is very little radiation, being slightly less than 1% of my 360 mrems per year allocated for non radiation workers, like myself. I doubt that even pregnant women or children would have any problems. Anecdotally speaking, I have taken about 124 flights in my life averaging about 4 hours a flight (45min to 7 hours). If I use 4 hours as a base and multply that by 124 flights, I get about 496 hours of flight time. Further, mutilating that by 0.3 mrem/hr, I get 148.8 mrems of life time radiation exposure. This is mostly gamma, having a weighting factor of 1, thus 148.8 mrems from a 1488.0 mGy dose and using Cs137 as a reference source, though the actual energies are probably much higher than Cs137.

[featheredfan]

Trips to the Moon and beyond would involve much more exposure and astronauts have described seeing particle flashes, inside of their closed eye's

[brfisher]

I wish cosmic rays weren't much of an issue along with some other dangerous obstacles when it comes to interplanetary and interstellar space trips; I would love to travel to other planets and stars if I didn't have to worry about the long term health effects of exposure to deadly cosmic radiation (including energetic particles from the sun and other stars), cosmic gamma rays like from GRBs (gamma ray bursts) and from high energy ultraviolet light and x-rays from the sun and other stars :-(

[Anti-proton]

@edpotkay1 ? There is plenty of background radiation. You can see it detecting on my geiger counter the entire course of the video. Most background radiation is of little consequence and will not harm you.

What does Berkeley have to do with anything? Scientists at Berkeley understand what background radiation is. If you recall, they are the ground who detected the large amount of radio iodine in the air from Japan. They understand radiation. What am I missing here?

[mousumisahana]

Can gemstones pass cosmic radiation ...

[Anti-proton]

@stuzapusa lol It is true. If I reported crazy and terrifying things, people would love it. lol

Unfortunetly, the truth often amazes less. Fearful imagination is a powerful and effective self preservation skill humans evolved to use. We eat it up. lol

[zzzdogutube]

Tom, Check your spelling on Breif Explaination ... maybe spelled like Brief Explanation.. Thanks Ron