What about being around 10000 bananas for 8 hours? Are people on banana plantations at significantly higher risk of cancer?
Come mista tally man
Tally me tumours
Daylight come and me need to go hospital 😔
Bananas are not radioactive enough to meaningfully increase cancer risk in any quantity.
Intensity of radiation falls according to the inverse square law. Because bananas take up space it’s not possible to have enough bananas close enough to you to irradiate you.
Not to mention the fact that there’s a growing body of evidence that elevated radiation exposure can, to a point, decrease cancer risk.
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Based on the chart, even if you got a full 0.1uSv dose from each of the 10,000 bananas, it would be 1mSv, which doesn’t seem fatal.
People saying that bananas are slightly radioactive was never about highlighting that bananas are particularly radioactive, it’s just a coomon example to show that everything is radioactive.
You probably recieve more radiation by being outside for 1 minute than standing next to a million bananas for a month.
Not that it even matters, most of the radiation will be stopped by the air before ever reaching you, and then most of the minute amount that reached you will be stopped by your skin.
Unless you’re literally standing next to the demon core, you basically have nothing to worry about.
Surely eating a banana has more exposure than just holding it
Almost certainly. But I’m not going to eat thousands of bananas in a day.
That’s like, $10,000!
Depends on what kind of radiation. Alpha radiation? You can hold the banana forever, but you better not eat it. Gamma radiation? Kinda fucked either way.
So if I’m ever offered a gamma-radiating banana I might as well eat it? Got it and thx
Think Incredible Hulk crossed with King Kong.
Aw hell ya. Im gonna be so frickin strong after this that I’ll finally be able to finish Edward Scissorhands without even crying or covering my eyes
what is holding a banana for an hour
Pretty weird, tbh.
What if I stroke the banana slightly, every once in a while? That would make it less weird, right?
What if I use it to caress my face? What about then?
Are you actually periodically pedantic or occasionally pedantic? Is there a pattern? When’s the next time you’re gonna be pedantic again?
