mbpaz on Nostr: kravietz 🦇 For these occasions I find it quite useful to translate activity into ...
kravietz 🦇 (npub1vz5…qdta) For these occasions I find it quite useful to translate activity into known units, like "banana equivalent dose of radiation" or BED.
15.000 becquerels are the approximate equivalent of 1.000 bananas.
(surprisingly, the BED is not yet part of the list of The Register Standards - https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html )
But the headline "Risk in the 'contaminated' mine found to be the same as that of 1000 bananas" would only cause laugh, not alarm.
15.000 becquerels are the approximate equivalent of 1.000 bananas.
(surprisingly, the BED is not yet part of the list of The Register Standards - https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html )
But the headline "Risk in the 'contaminated' mine found to be the same as that of 1000 bananas" would only cause laugh, not alarm.