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Is this... safe?
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Me after dinner
Yeah its safe. Your aunties nasty ass jello salad with banana's in it is giving you far more radiation exposure than those plates, because you put it inside you.
You could put one of those candle holders inside you if you're so inclined.
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Is there something specific about bananas or is it just the go to stand in for saying that even fruit entire radiation?
The potassium taken up by banana plants during growth has radioactive isotopes which are concentrated in the fruiting bodies.
It's well-enough documented that there's an informal unit of measurement for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Ugh.. They actually use bananas for scale...
Ironically though, your body doesn't really store excess potassium. When you eat a banana, you're only replacing a banana's worth of potassium within your body, so it ends up being largely net 0 in terms of a radiation dose, even though it's radioactive.
But you could exchange non-radioactive isotopes for the radioactive ones bananas are rich in, right?
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Bananas genuinely are more radioactive than most other foods due to their high potassium content and the relatively high frequency of radioactive isotopes of potassium.
Most of the respondents to your comment focused on the bananas themselves as being the issue, but they are actually missing the point somewhat. Bananas do have more potassium and are more radioactive than other fruit, but actually, its the "putting them inside you" which is the much larger issue. The inverse square law applies to all forms of radiation and you've effectively reduced that to 0 by ingesting the thing which is radioactive. So instead of absorbing a small fraction of the total radiation emitted by the thing over time, you are exposed to ALL of the radiation emitted by the thing over time. Not to mention any radiation given off the plates is not even going to be able to penetrate your skin or clothes; whereas the banana is already inside you.
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Babe, put out the fine Xbox tableware
Personally, I think I would save these for Halloween or a kid’s birthday party. They’re cool and I kinda want some but I also feel like they’re not conducive to keeping the food down.
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As long as it isn't uranium glazed glass it is safe to eat from. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1322875/
From the paper: "The maximum quantity of uranium leached from the uranium-bearing glasses was about 30 micrograms L-1, while that from the ceramic-glazed items was about 300,000 micrograms L-1. "
Thanks for posting this!!
Also, the green glow isn’t from radioactive decay, it’s the uranium fluorescing under the UV light stationed just out of frame.
Yeah the light is probably more harmful than the glassware lol
Most of the produce you buy in grocery stores have been irradiated with UV to kill harmful bacteria, and it does not have any harmful effects. I suppose if they leave the UV light on and eat dinner under it for an extended period of time then they might get a sunburn.
I wonder if it truly doesn't have any harmful effects?
I've heard a lot of studies about how America's *gut Flora has changed in the last 50 years. How much of that is from having fewer microbiota ingested from natural food?
I mean, it's not like UV only kills the bad stuff right?
America's got Flora
It took me way too long to figure out that you meant America's gut flora. America's Got Flora sounds like some weird reality TV show.
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And then look at how many lives it saved by providing food this way.
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Eggs at thanksgiving??? No. It's not safe. It's going to cause stinky farts in the house, at max capacity! 200 people, all egg farting in one house???
Pretty sure you need gas masks.
Why do so many people get gassey eating eggs? I can eat over a dozen deviled eggs in one sitting and not have a single issue
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"Oh hey! Neat plates!"
See the group name
If you don't reach critical mass, did you even feast?
Looks like a black light overhead causing everything fluorescent to glow.
Edit: Not even just looks like. That's exactly what it is.
Well yeah; to see the glowing effect of Uranium glass, you need to put it under a UV light.
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