{"id":4668,"date":"2011-03-19T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2011-03-19T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T05:58:07","slug":"xkcd-graphic-explaining-relative-radiation-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/xkcd-graphic-explaining-relative-radiation-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"XKCD graphic explaining relative radiation exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/xkcd_radiation_chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4669\" title=\"xkcd_radiation_chart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/xkcd_radiation_chart-255x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/xkcd_radiation_chart-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/xkcd_radiation_chart.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>I have a <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,&amp;amp;quot;\">number of people call me up and ask what I thought about Fukushima reactor and what it mean to people in Hawaii and California.\u00a0 &#8216;Why are you asking me?&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Hey you have a Ph.D. and worked at NASA right?&#8221;\u00a0 Sigh.. <\/span><\/span>I don&#8217;t know much more then anyone else about radiation, but I do follow the news like an addict and based on what I&#8217;ve heard (from the lets get people panic) news sources, we are fine.\u00a0 However, here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/radiation\/\">great chart from Randell Munroe of XKCD<\/a> that does a really good job of putting this in perspective&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/radiation\/sources.html\">and his source here<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Two year Biopsy-versity via XKCD\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/two-year-biopsy-versity-via-xkcd\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Two year Biopsy-versity via XKCD<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Swiftkey gets the XKCD bump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/swiftkey-gets-the-xkcd-bump\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Swiftkey gets the XKCD bump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"XKCD &#8211; tumbler.com replaces band names\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/xkcd-tumbler-com-replaces-band-names\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">XKCD &#8211; tumbler.com replaces band names<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"XKCD has reached 1000 comics.  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I don&#8217;t know much more then anyone else about radiation, but I&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/xkcd-graphic-explaining-relative-radiation-exposure\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[834,591,91,455],"tags":[1146,1145,1144,506],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-humor","category-random-thoughts","category-rumor-control","tag-charts","tag-fukushima","tag-radiation","tag-xkcd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-1di","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}