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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 08:31 AM
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XKCD Put together a phenomenal radiation dose chart
XKCD is a fantastic comic in its own right, but this is really nice for people who want to see comparable radiation amounts:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 11:21 AM
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1. It's classic xkcd
Edited on Mon Mar-21-11 11:21 AM by pokerfan
I'm a fan and I saw it earlier as it hit my rss feed. (It also hit a data visualization site I subscribe to.) But I wonder if it's really that much easier to understand than a traditional logarithmic plot such as this one:

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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 06:58 PM
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2. The logarithmic isn't as fancy but is easier to understand
Plus it specifies "per hour" etc
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