How Many Banana's Can I Eat Before I Get Radiation Poisoning? - General

I heard that banana's have radiation in them, and I was curious how many I should eat before I have to stop because I eat bananas a lot. Daily, practically hourly.

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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Xkcd_radiation_chart.png[/IMG] quite a lot!

I think over 10 a day results in potassium poisoning, but that's because potassium is poisonous and not because of radiation. The radiation in a banana is going to be stupidly negligible

I don't know how to read, so that chart is useless to me. Lately I've been eating a lot of seaweed prior to ingesting my bananas because I heard they had iodine in them that absorbs radiation.

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;42921690]I don't know how to read, so that chart is useless to me. Lately I've been eating a lot of seaweed prior to ingesting my bananas because I heard they had iodine in them that absorbs radiation.[/QUOTE] Eating 100 bananas is the same as the normal background radiation of your day

[QUOTE=JoonazL;42921695]Eating 100 bananas is the same as the normal background radiation of your day[/QUOTE] Shit. [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] I also heard that eating one banana's is about the same as living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for a year.

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;42921701]Shit. [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] I also heard that eating one banana's is about the same as living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for a year.[/QUOTE] Yep. If you eat 50000 bananas a year it's the amount that radiation workers are allowed to absorb.

its 20 million to severe radiation poisoning/death your welcome

I also live within 100 miles of Indian Point, so does that make banana's radiation worse than usual? Also did Fukushima make Banana's radiation more powerful?

I had 80 billion bananas once and died of radiation poisoning. I propose a bananas ban to stop our kids from ingesting any more of those nuclear death traps.

You should probably cool it on the Banana's

[QUOTE=Novangel;42921744]I had 80 billion bananas once and died of radiation poisoning. I propose a bananas ban to stop our kids from ingesting any more of those nuclear death traps.[/QUOTE] If Banana's have so much radiation on them why hasn't the FDA ordered them to remove it? At the very least they should ship banana's in lead boxes, I used to work at a grocery store so if I get lukemia later on I know why now.

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;42921731]I also live within 100 miles of Indian Point, so does that make banana's radiation worse than usual? Also did Fukushima make Banana's radiation more powerful?[/QUOTE] You'll be fine as coal power emits more radiation than nuclear does, and it's very minimal. Not sure about fukushima.

[QUOTE=JoonazL;42921759]You'll be fine as coal power emits more radiation than nuclear does, and it's very minimal. Not sure about fukushima.[/QUOTE] What about Carcoal than?

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;42921772]What about Carcoal than?[/QUOTE] Bit over 3 times nuclear

You would probably die because of a vitamin overdose before the radiation gets to you. Even getting a mammogramm is harmless compared to the radiation it takes to make you sick.

Holy shit, if that's the case how often can you barbecque before you get Radiation posioning?

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8ICItg-50#t=1632"]If you eat 1,000 bananas, you raise your risk of death from radiation by 1 in 1 million.[/URL] So you have nothing to worry about. Unless I'm not supposed to take the thread seriously in which case woooooosshhh.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;42921823][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8ICItg-50#t=1632"]If you eat 1,000 bananas, you raise your risk of death from radiation by 1 in 1 million.[/URL] [/QUOTE] oh god ive made so many mistakes in my life

[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;42921837]oh god ive made so many mistakes in my life[/QUOTE] im sorry for your lots :(

I learn so much from this place.

Do I have any legal ground to stand on if I decide to take the Chiquita woman to court? Can you summon non-US nationals to legal hearings for knowingly poisoning their customers?

do u want me to do the math and get the exact number of bananas you can eat before dying of acute radiation sickness?

You literally have to eat something like 9600 tons of bananas before you die of radiation poisoning. Seriously, no worries. :v:

[img]http://www.australianexplorer.com/photographs/other/coffs_harbour_big_banana.jpg[/img] OH JESUS! MY SKIN! IT'S MELTING!

you would need to eat 30,000,000 bananas within a half-hour in order to accumulate 30 Sv of radiation assuming each banana contains 0.1 μSv from the potassium. at 30 Sv, you will die a horrible death within a day. if the average banana weighs 126 grams, then you would need to eat 3780 metric tons of bananas within a half-hour. this is the equivalent of eating one and a third of a saturn v rocket made out of bananas. if all of the trash produced daily from new york city was turned into bananas, you're in luck because you'd only need to eat a third of it to die a horrible, radioactive death. if you plan to take this on, your best bet is to get the bananas from india, as they produce 29.7 million metric tons of bananas a year, which is an average of 81369.86 a day, equaling to 6,457,925 bananas. in order for you to accomplish this feat, you would need to take 5 days worth of india's banana harvest, assuming that india produces bananas year-round at equally the same rate. for 5 days, you would be hoarding 20% of all of the bananas produced in the world to consume at once in order to be the first person to die of acute radiation sickness from the potassium in a banana.

[QUOTE=Doom14;42921866]You literally have to eat something like 9600 tons of bananas before you die of radiation poisoning. Seriously, no worries. :v:[/QUOTE] How many tons does a banana weigh?

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;42922017]you would need to eat 30,000,000 bananas within a half-hour in order to accumulate 30 Sv of radiation assuming each banana contains 0.1 μSv from the potassium. at 30 Sv, you will die a horrible death within a day. if the average banana weighs 126 grams, then you would need to eat 3780 metric tons of bananas within a half-hour. this is the equivalent of eating one and a third of a saturn v rocket made out of bananas. if all of the trash produced daily from new york city was turned into bananas, you're in luck because you'd only need to eat a third of it to die a horrible, radioactive death. if you plan to take this on, your best bet is to get the bananas from india, as they produce 29.7 million metric tons of bananas a year, which is an average of 81369.86 a day, equaling to 6,457,925 bananas. in order for you to accomplish this feat, you would need to take 5 days worth of india's banana harvest, assuming that india produces bananas year-round at equally the same rate. for 5 days, you would be hoarding 20% of all of the bananas produced in the world to consume at once in order to be the first person to die of acute radiation sickness from the potassium in a banana.[/QUOTE] I had no idea how close to death I've come. Wow.

cool bananas