re: Blinking meme guy Chernobyl documentary

Want to see Natalia in nothing but a Geiger Counter.

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Long term cancers are a risk of visiting the Exclusion Zone, though. But so's having natural rock countertops in your house (they often have veins of radionuclides that decay into radon that you breathe into your lungs) or eating bananas (Potassium-40 delivered straight to the gut), or medical scans (literally shooting radiation at you or injecting you intravenously with radioactive substances). But, people are familiar with granite and x-rays and bananas are delicious, so they're not scared of them. People, in general, are ignorant about radiation outside those few familiar exposure sources they're used to encountering, so they freak out about things like going to the areas surrounding Chernobyl. Their lack of knowledge makes them unable to appreciate the level of risk associated with it and the proper place they should be on the spectrum between "run away" and "lick the ground"

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Very true. I had an abdominal CT scan a few years ago and got to looking up radiation exposures from various scans. I believe that one was 7-8 years worth. And it wasn't the first CT scan I'd ever had, either. I suppose the doctors know what they're doing, so I don't worry about it too much, but that in itself is exactly the issue.